MOSCOW (MRC) - Stavrolen, a major producer of polyolefins in Russia, shut production of polypropylene (PP) due to the technical problems, according to ICIS-MRC Price Report with reference to the producer's customers.
According to the company's clients, Stavrolen, shut the production of polypropylene from 19 November due to technical problems. The producer did not resume PP production on 21 November. The exact dates of the outage have not been announced yet.
It is also worth noting that according to the company's clients, the largest polypropylene producer in Russia - SIBUR Tobolsk continued to limit capacity utilisation due to problems in the production of propylene.
Stavrolen (part of the structure of Lukoil), the annual production capacity of polypropylene is 120,000 tonnes.
Overall production of propylene polymers exceeded 92,300 tonnes in the first ten months of 2018, up by 9% year on year.
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