MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shenhua Xinjiang Mining Co (part of Shenhua Group) has unexpectedly shut down its polypropylene (PP) plant due to technical glitches on its pipeline, reported CommoPlast with reference to market sources.
Thus , the company's PP plant, based in Xinjiang, China and with the capacity of 450,000 tons/year, was taken off-stream on 11 November, 2020, an is expected to remain off-line for seven days.
Shenhua Xinjiang also operates low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant with the capacity of 300,000 tons/year at the same site. This unit was also shut on 11 November for the same reason.
As MRC wrote before, last year, the company conducted scheduled maintenance works at LDPE plant from 16 August to 24 September.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market reached 880,130 tonnes in the first nine months of 2020 (calculated using the formula: production minus exports plus imports, excluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply increased exclusively of PP random copolymer.
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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