MOSCOW (MRC) - Sayanskkhimplast, the largest Russian manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride, commissioned Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC, Germany) to build a new chlorine drying department, as well as to modernize the existing sulfuric acid concentration unit at the first chlorine and caustic production plant in Russia using membrane electrolysis in Sayansk, the German company said in a statement.
Previously, membrane electrolysis was designed by SAS and launched in 2006, and in 2013 its annual capacity of the electrolysis hall with electrolyzers of the first chlorine and caustic production unit in Russia by the membrane electrolysis method was increased to 180 thousand tons of chlorine gas.
Despite the pandemic that strongly affected supply chains, this project, after a year and a half of design and implementation, was nevertheless completed with successful warranty tests before the end of 2020.
"The Sayanskkhimplast enterprise has been our long-term customer since the establishment of the independent SAS company in 2004. I am very proud that, despite various political circumstances and despite the pandemic, we always manage to maintain trusting cooperation and we were able to contribute to strengthening our leading market positions Sayanskkhimplasta", - said Joerg Engelmann, CEO of SAS.
For this order, CAC developed basic and detailed engineering, supplied equipment, supervised installation, and assisted with commissioning. It is noted that in order to maintain and build up these positions in recent years, Sayanskkhimplast has been constantly working to expand and modernize existing production facilities.
Earlier it was reported that Sayanskkhimplast resumed production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) after stopping for scheduled preventive maintenance. PVC production was resumed on 5 August after a scheduled preventive maintenance. The idle capacity was long enough and started on 8 July. The annual production capacity is 350,000 tonnes.
According to the MRC ScanPlast, Sayanskkhimplast last month reduced capacity utilization and produced 23,400 tonnes of suspension PVC against 26,500 tonnes in May. In the first six months of this year, the Sayan enterprise managed to produce 156,900 tonnes of PVC against 164,300 tonnes a year earlier.
JSC Sayanskkhimplast (Irkutsk Region), founded in 1998, is a complex of large-scale organochlorine production facilities linked into a single production cycle. The enterprises of Sayanskkhimplast OJSC produce PVC, caustic soda and whiteness. After the commissioning of PVC production RusVinyl (Nizhny Novgorod region), Sayanskkhimplast became the second largest PVC production in Russia.
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