MOSCOW (MRC) -- By now Karpatneftechem (Lukoil group, Kalush, Ukraine) had produced over 76.5 thousand tonnes of PVC. Production capacity of the enterprise makes 300,000 tonne/year of PVC, 200,000 tonne/year of caustic soda, 250,000 tonne/year of ethylene and 100,000tonne/year of polyethylene. Alexander Rappoport, Head of gas and energy operations and sales of petrochemical and gas processing products of Lukoil, said about this at his speech at The Polymers Summit-2011.
According to Rappoport, the production operates at 100% of its capacities utilization. All grades of PVC have been tested and now meet the standards of world analogues. Moreover, the residual content of VCM in PVC decreased by 3 times compared to the European brands.
At the same time, Alexander Rapppport noted that PVC production at Karpatneftechem was launched not in the most favourable period in the market, so the enterprise had to arrange production of a high quality product very quickly.
Since the shipment had started, two major problems concerning the product quality appeared. At present, the problems have been successfully solved, said the head of the gas and energy operations and sales of petrochemical and gas processing products of Lukoil.
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