MOSCOW (MRC) - Stavrolen resumed production of high density polyethylene (HDPE) following long time emergency shutdown, according to the company's customers.
Stavrolen resumed HDPE production on 7, April after a long emergency shutdown. The customers of the company said that the first batches of HDPE are expected to be shipped in the domestic market in the late week.
As it previously reported, there was a fire in a workshop of pyrolysis gas separation at Stavrolen on 26, February 2014 because of the failure of the aluminum heat exchanger. As a consequence, the company had to suspend production of polyethylene and polypropylene. The company resumed PP production in October 2014, using imported feedstock.
Stavrolen, subsidiary of LUKOIL, is the second largest Russian producer of high density polyethylene (HDPE) after Kazanorgsintez and fifth in terms of production of polypropylene after Nizhnekamskneftekhim and Tomskneftekhim.
Stavrolen's production capacities for HDPE and PP are 300,000 tonnes/year and 120,000 tonnes/year, respectively.
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