MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shenhua Xinjiang Mining Co has brought on-stream its polypropylene (PP) unit following a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source informed that, the company has resumed operations at the unit on September 24, 2019. The plant was shut for maintenance in mid-August, 2019.
Located at Xinjiang, China, the PP unit has a production capacity of 450,000 mt/year.
The company also operates the low density polyethylene (LDPE) unit at the same site. This plant's production capacity is 270,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, last year, the company conducted maintenance works at LDPE unit in Xinjiang from 4 to 28 August.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, the estimated consumption of PP in the Russian market totalled 694,210 tonnes in January-June 2019, up by 14% year on year. The supply of propylene block copolymers (PP-block) and propylene homopolymers (PP-homo) increased.
Shenhua Group Corporation Limited was a Chinese state-owned mining and energy company. Shenhua Group was founded in October 1995 under the auspices of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It was the largest coal-producing company in China.
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