Sayanskhimplast to build 200kt/year VCM facility

04 April 2008 10:12  [Source: ICIS news]

MOSCOW (ICIS news)--Leading Russian polyvinyl chloride (PVC) producer Sayanskhimplast has retained Germany's Uhde to build a new vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) facility, the company said on Friday.

The roubles (Rs) 1bn (€27m/$42m) unit will use Vinnolit technology for a 200,000 tonnes/year unit due on stream in October 2010, a statement said.

Sayanskhimplast also plans to build another 200,000 tonne/year VCM unit in order to replace its existing facilities, according to the statement.

In August 2007, a blast at Sayanskhimplast's VCM facility killed four workers.

In 2006, the company replaced its obsolete mercury technology with a new membrane technology unit to produce caustic soda. Japan's Asahi Kasei Chemicals supplied equipment for the 169,000 tonne/year caustic soda facility.

Based in the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia, Sayanskhimplast operates PVC capacity of 248,000 tonnes/year.

In 2006, it announced plans to raise its PVC output up to 400,000 tonnes/year by 2011 and up to 600,000 tonnes/year eventually.

($1 = €0.64/Rs23.59)

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By: Sergei Blagov
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