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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Jilin Petrochemical,
has taken off-stream its No. 3 Methyl methacrylate (MMA) unit for a turnaround,
as per Apic-online.
A
Polymerupdate source in China informed that, the company started maintenance at
the unit on June 15, 2020. The unit is expected to remain off-line for about two
weeks.
Located in Jilin, China, the No. 3 MMA unit has a production
capacity of 50,000 mt/year.
We remind that, as MRC reported earlier,
Roehm has planned to take off-stream its MMA plant in June 2020. The company is
likely to start turnaround at the plant on June 5, 2020. The plant is expected
to remain under maintenance for about 10 days. Located in Wesseling, Germany,
the plant has a production capacity of 95,000 mt/year.
The principal
application, consuming approximately 75% of the MMA, is the manufacture of
polymethyl methacrylate acrylic plastics (PMMA). Methyl methacrylate is also
used for the production of the co-polymer methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene
(MBS), used as a modifier for polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
According to MRC's DataScope report,
exports of suspension polyvinyl chloride (SPVC) from Russia reached about 92,200
tonnes in the first five months of 2020, up by 10% year on year. At the
same time, PVC imports to the country grew by 1% year on year. Last month's
exports of Russian suspension (excluding shipments to the countries of the
Customs Union ) were about 19,900 tonnes, compared to 23,600 tonnes in April.
Thus, overall exports totalled 92,200 tonnes in the first five months of 2020
versus 83,800 tonnes a year earlier. |
