MOSCOW (MRC) -- Poliom, based in Omsk, a joint venture of Titan Group, SIBUR and Gazprom neft, has resumed its production after a scheduled maintenance, as per ICIS-MRC Price report.
The plant's representative said Poliom resumed its polypropylene (PP) production on Thursday, 11 October, after the turnaround. The outage was short in comparison with other Russian producers and lasted for 10 days (the shutdown began on 1 October). The plant's annual production capacity is 210,000 tonnes.
The launch of Poliom after the outage was the first one in the autumn round of turnarounds at a number of Russian plants. Thus, Ufaorgsintez shut down its production capacities for 30-day maintenance on 19 September, SIBUR Tobolsk started a three-week turnaround on 2 October, and Stavrolen took off-stream its PP production for one week on 6 October.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Poliom produced 19,400 tonnes of PP in August versus 18,700 tonnes a month earlier. The Omsk plant's overall PP output totalled about 148,000 tonnes in the first eight months of 2018, up 3% year on year.
Poliom Ltd., a JV of Gazprom Neft, SIBUR and Titan, which was established in 2005, is one of the three leaders of Russian PP producers. The plant, which started operation on 9 February, 2013, was built on Basell's technology, with Tecnimont being the supplier of technological equipment. It can produce 98 different grades of PP (homo-, stat-, block copolymers).
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