MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiyo Vinyl Corporation, a subsidiary of Tosoh Group, is likely to shut its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant for a maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the plant is planned to be shut in Q1, 2016. The plant is expected to be taken off-stream in March 2016 and will remain shut for around three weeks.
Located in Yokkaichi in Japan, the PVC plant has a production capacity of 310,000 mt/year.
We remind that, as MRC informed earlier, Taiyo Vinyl is likely to shut its cracker for a maintenance turnaround in March 2016. The exact period of the shutdown could not be ascertained. Located in Yokkaichi, Japan, the cracker has a production capacity of 500,000 mt/year. The last shutdown was undertaken at the cracker in March 2015. Currently, it is running at full production capacity levels.
Taiyo Vinyl Corporation, a subsidiary of Tosoh Group, is one of Japan's largest manufacturers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The plant in Chiba is one of the company's key assests, which supplies 50% of its products to the domestic market. The company also produces PVC at the plants in Yokkaichi and Osaka with the annual capacity of 310,000 and 150,000 tonnes, respectively.
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