Russia’s Stavrolen shuts PE, PP production for brief turnaround

MOSCOW (MRC)–Russia’s major polyolefins producer Stavrolen has shut down its high density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) production for an unscheduled short turnaround, according to the ICIS-MRC Price report.

A plant’s representative said Stavrolen took off-stream its HDPE and PP production on 11 December because of the necessity to conduct technical works.

The outage will be short and will last for around 5 days.

Stavrolen’s annual capacity of PP and HDPE production is 120,000 and 300,000 tonnes, respectively.

The plant’s output of propylene polymers and HDPE exceeded 86,700 tonnes and 221,300 tonnes, respectively, in the first 10 months of 2019.

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