MOSCOW (MRC) -- Kazakh Neftekhim Ltd, Kazakhstan's sole polypropylene (PP) producer, shut its PP production on 18 November for unscheduled maintenance, according to the ICIS-MRC Price Report.
According to the enterprise’s customers, the shutdown of capacities was unplanned and was caused by the cessation of supplies of raw materials from the local refinery. The dates of resumption of PP production have not been announced yet.
It was earlier reported that the Kazakh producer had fully resumed its PP production by 25 October after the outage, caused by termination of feedstock shipments from the Pavlodar refinery. The local refinery shut some of its production capacities for an emergency turnaround from 30 September to 19 October.
Neftekhim Ltd resumed its PP production after the Pavlodar refinery finished the turnaround.
Neftekhim Ltd was commissioned in 2009. The company produces methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and polypropylene (PP). The plant's PP production with the capacity of 45,000 tonnes/year was launched in 2011; the plant did not have PP granulation unit then, polymer was produced in the form of powder, which limited its field of application.
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