SPVC imports have reached a historical minimum for the past three months
because of a number of factors. September SPVC imports fell to 344 tonnes from
794 tonnes a month earlier. Thus, overall imports of resin to Russia totalled
13,800 tonnes in the first nine months of 2018, compared to 42,400 tonnes a year
earlier. At the same time, weaker demand for PVC from the domestic market over
the past few years and high capacity utilisation at the existing production
capacities forced Russian producers to ship resin for export more actively this
year, export sales rose by slightly less than a third.
Chinese producers
were the key foreign suppliers of resin, overall imports of acetylene PVC were
11,500 tonnes in the first nine months of 2018 versus 39,500 tonnes a year
earlier.
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