Neftekhim Ltd shut its PP production for turnaround

MOSCOW (MRC) — Neftekhim Ltd,
Kazakhstan”s only polypropylene (PP) producer, has shut down its PP production
for a scheduled maintenance, according to ICIS-MRC Price
report.

The plant”s customers said the Kazakh producer had completely
took off-stream its PP output for a planned turnaround by 27 September. The
exact dates of the outage have not been announced yet; initially, the repairs
were scheduled to be carried out within 28 days.

Neftekhim Ltd  was
commissioned in 2009. The company produces methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)
and polypropylene (PP). The plant”s PP production with the capacity of 45,000
tonnes/year was launched in 2011; the plant did not have PP granulation unit
then, polymer was produced in the form of powder, which limited its field of
application.

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