MOSCOW (MRC) -- Saudi Arabia's Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) expects its costs to rise by 120 million Saudi Riyals (USD31.98 million) in 2016 due to higher variable overheads, reported TPS with reference to the company's announcement.
The company is bracing for a financial impact due to higher energy prices and electricity tariffs, after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hiked its 2016 natural gas prices. These higher costs were expected to affect both the cost of feedstock, and the cost of energy required for operations.
Sipchem expects the financial impact of these higher costs to show up in its financial results starting from Q1 2016.
The company aims to boost production efficiency at its plants, rationalise expenditures, and grow its markets in order to offset cost rises.
As MRC reported earlier, Sipchem commenced trial runs at a new ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)/low density polyethylene (LDPE) swing plant on July 26, 2014. Located in Jubail Saudi Arabia, the plant has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
Established in 1999, Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) manufactures and markets methanol, butanediol, tetrahydrofuran, acetic acid, acetic anhydride, vinyl acetate monomer. Besides, it has launched several down-stream projects to manufacture ethylene vinyl acetate, low density polyethylene, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, cross linkable polyethylene, and semi conductive compound.
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