MOSCOW (MRC) -- Poliom (part of Titan Group), the third largest polypropylene (PP) producer in Russia after Tobolsk-Polymer and Nizhnekamskneftekhim, temporarily shut down its PP production because of technical issues, according to ICIS-MRC Price report.
The company's customers said Poliom shut down its production of polymer on 27 November due to technical problems. The company's representatives did not comment on the information regarding the outage.
According to unofficial information, the plant will not be idle for a long time and will have resumed its production by 1 December.
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. The plant's overall production totalled 142,800 tonnes over the firs ten months of 2014.
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