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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec
Guangzhou plans to shut down its No.2 polypropylene
(PP) unit in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China on 27 April, 2021, for a
scheduled turnaround, according to CommoPlast.
The maintenance works at
this unit with a production capacity of 50,000 mt/year is likely to last
for a period of 34 days. Thus, No. 2 PP unit will be bought on-stream
on 31 May, 2021.
Overall, Sinopec Guangzhou's PP plant in
Guangzhou has three lines with a combined production capacity of 320,000
mt/year.
As MRC informed earlier,
on 4-5 March, 2017, Sinopec Guangzhou shut its No. 3 PP line for
a maintenance turnaround. The shutdown lasted for a period of around 2
weeks. Located in Guangzhou province of China, the plant has a production
capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
According to MRC's ScanPlast
report, PP shipments to the Russian market reached 141,870 tonnes in
January 2021 versus 123,520 tonnes a year earlier. Supply of homopolymer PP and
PP block copolymers increased.
China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec
Group) is a super-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group established
in July 1998 on the basis of the former China Petrochemical Corporation. Sinopec
Group's key business activities include the exploration and production of oil
and natural gas, petrochemicals and other chemical products, oil
refining. |
