MOSCOW (MRC) -- Volgograd Kaustik, Russia's fourth largest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) producer, shut down production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for a scheduled turnaround, according to ICIS-MRC Price report.
According to a company representative, scheduled maintenance works started at PVC production on 1 May. The shutdown will be quite long and will take three weeks. The plant's PVC production capacity is 90,000 tonnes/year.
It is also worth noting that next shutdowns for maintenance at Russian PVC plants are scheduled in June - July.
SayanskKhimPlast and RusVinyl, which annual capacities are 350,000 tonnes and 330,000 tonnes, respectively, will take next off-stream their production capacities for maintenance.
PVC production at Volgograd Kaustik was launched in December 1972 with the assistance of the Japanese firm Kureh's specialists. Nikokhim Group is one of the leaders of the Russian chemical industry, the main production assets of which are located in the southern industrial hub of Volgograd.
The holding company includes: JSC Kaustik is the principal plant of the group, manufactures basic products - caustic soda, chloroparaffins, synthetic hydrochloric acid, chlorine trademark, polyvinyl chloride, sodium hypochlorite, etc .; CJSC NikoMag - production of anti-icing materials, magnesium chloride, magnesium oxide and hydroxide; Zirax, Ltd. - production of high-purity reagents for various industries and JSC Poligran - the production of plastic compounds and rigid PVC compounds.
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