LVM turns around two Tessenderlo VCM units

28 February 2008 14:32  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Limburgse Vinyl Maatschappij (LVM) has shut down its Tessenderlo, Belgium vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant for planned maintenance, a company source said on Thursday.

LVM operates two VCM units at the 550,000 tonne/year site, and they will be halted one after the other, the source said.

Production at the first unit at the plant stopped on 27 February.

Output will therefore drop to a minimum of 50% until the restart of the second unit, scheduled for 18 March, the source added.

LVM also produces 225,000 tonnes/year of downstream polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at Beek in the Netherlands, but volumes were not expected to be affected by the outage.

Other major European VCM and PVC producers include Arkema, INEOS ChlorVinyls, Shin Etsu and Solvin.

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By: Adal Rafiq
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