Index of Russia chemical production grew 2.2% in Jan-May 2016
Sergey Karaichentsev
22-Jun-2016
MOSCOW (MRC)–Russia’s production of basic chemicals has decreased since April with the fall in May reaching 0.9%, according to statistics agency Rosstat.
Despite the second consecutive month of a decrease in chemicals production, the production of basic chemicals increased by 2.2% in January-May of this year, according to the Federal Service of State Statistics.
May production of ethylene in Russia was about 232 ,000 tonnes compared with 216,600 tonnes in April. The growth in output was reached because of the restart of production at Kazanorgsintez after scheduled maintenance works, which had begun in April.
Total production of ethylene in Russia exceeded 1.2 m
tonnes in January-May 2016, down 0.3% year on year.
May production of benzene grew 97,100
tonnes compared to 91,100 tonnes in April, which was also a
result of the restart of Kazanorgsintez. Total benzene
production over the first five months of the year exceeded
503,300 tonnes, down 2.6% from the same period in 2015.
Russia’s production of xylols in May
increased to 48,800 tonnes, compared with 47,700 tonnes in
April 2016. Production of xylols in January-May
2016 totalled 242,100 tonnes, up 1.4% year on year.
May production of sodium hydroxide
(caustic soda) decreased to 85,400 tonnes (100% of the basic
substance) against 93,000 tonnes in April. Kaustik Volgograd
has been shut for a scheduled maintenances for more than two
weeks.
Total production of caustic soda in Russia exceeded 459,700
tonnes in January-May of this year, down 2.2% year on year on
the back of unscheduled shutdown at SayanskKhimPlast.
May production of mineral fertilizers was
1.569m tonnes (in terms of 100% nutrients), down 8.3% from
the April level.
Russia’s production of mineral fertilizers in Jan-May
2016 exceeded 8.5 m tonnes, up 0.9% than in the same time a
year earlier.
All types of fertilizers have grown, the exception being
potash production volumes which declined by 7.7%.
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