MOSCOW (MRC) -- Arvand Petrochemical has undertaken an emergency shutdown at its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Iran informed that the company has shut its plant today owing to technical issues. The exact duration of shutdown could not be ascertained.
Located in the Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone in Iran, the plant has a production capacity of 340,000 mt/year.
We remind that, as MRC reported previously, currently number of active Iranian Petrochemical complexes are 53, with total production capacity of 59 million metric ton, producing range of polymers, chemicals, aromatics & liquid gas, located mainly at Iranian south region, next to Persian Gulf, called Assaluyeh and Mahshahr Special Economic Zones.
At the moment, there are 67 developments projects in the country which are under construction, adding 61 million metric ton on total production and estimated to fully run till 2018.
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