MOSCOW (MRC) -- Tomskneftekhim (TNKhK), a subsidiary of SIBUR and one of the largest Russian producers of polymers - polypropylene (PP) and low density polyethylene (LDPE), shut down its production capacities for a scheduled maintenance, according to ICS-MRC Price report.
The plant's customers said Tomskneftekhim took off-stream its LDPE and PP production capacities for the scheduled turnarounds on 5 September. The outage will last for two weeks.
It is also worth noting that this is the first shutdown from a series of outages for maintenance at Russian plants in September. Stavrolen shut its PP production on 6 September, and Ufaorgsintez will take off-stream some of its LDPE production capacities on 17 September.
Tomskneftekhim, LLC, was established in July 2003 on the basis of Tomsk enterprises - CJSC "Metanol", OJSC "Plant Benzol", OJSC "Tomsk Petrochemical Plant", OJSC "Tomsk Petrochemical Enterprise". Tomskneftekhim is a subsidiary of SIBUR and one of the largest Russian producers of polymers - PP and LDPE. The capacity for Tomskneftekhim's production of LDPE is 240,000 tonnes/year and production of PP - 140,000 tonnes/year.
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