MOSCOW (MRC) -- North Huajin Chemical Industry has taken off-stream its No. 2 polypropylene (PP) unit because of the pressure from inventories of material in the market, according to Apic-online.
This unit was shut on 8 February 2020. The restart date has not been specified yet.
Earlier, a Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company resumed operations at the plant on January 4, 2020, following an unplanned maintenance. The plant was shut on December 22, 2019.
Located in Liaoning province of China, the unit has a production capacity of 50,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, North Huajin Chemical shut its PP unit in Liaoning on September 20, 2019. Further details on duration of shutdown was not available. Located in Liaoning province, China, the plant has a production capacity of 50,000 mt/year.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, the estimated PP consumption in the Russian market was 1,260,400 tonnes in January-December 2019, up by 4% year on year. Supply of almost all grades of propylene polymers increased, except for statistical copolymers of propylene (PP random copolymers).
North Huajin Chemical Industries Group Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets fertilizers, synthesis resins, ethylene, methanol, and dimethyl in China. The company also manufactures PVC plastic windows and doors, functional membranes, PVC-U section materials, and laminated plastic woven bags. Its fertilizer products include urea and slow release urea for use in agriculture, husbandry, and fishery markets. North Huajin Chemical Industries Group Corporation was founded in 2002 and is based in Panjin, China.
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