MOSCOW (MRC) -- Japanese petrochemical producer - Taiyo Vinyl Corp., a subsidiary of Tosoh Group, is in plans to shut its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant for maintenance, reported Apic-online.
Located at Osaka in Japan, the PVC plant has a production capacity of 170,000 mt/year.
According to a Polymerupdate source in Japan, the plant is likely to be shut for a maintenance turnaround in July 2014 for a period of about one month.
As MRC informed before, Taiyo Vinyl has been expanding its PVC production capacities in Chiba, Japan. With the construction of a new plant, the company plans to increase its PVC production by 10,000 tonnes per year.
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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