MOSCOW (MRC) -- Poliom (part of Titan Group), one of the largest Russian polypropylene (PP) producer, has shut down its production for a scheduled turnaround, according to ICIS-MRC Price report.
Poliom, Russia's third largest PP producer, stopped its production for a scheduled maintenance yesterday, 11 August. The outage will last at least two weeks. The plant's production capacity is 210,000 tons of PP per year.
As reported earlier, Ufaorgsintez also plans to shut down its PP production on 15 August, as part of the overhaul at the plant.
LLC "Poliom" was founded on 14 May, 2005 for the construction of the polypropylene (PP) plant within the petrochemical cluster project "PARK: regional agro-industrial clusters." The plant was built on Basell technology, the supplier of technological equipment was Tecnimont. The opening ceremony was held on 25 April 2013. The product range consists of 100 PP grades (homopolymer PP, statistical and block copolymers). In April 2014, the production capacity of Omsk PP Plant reached 210,000 tonnes of polypropylene per year.
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