Russia’s Ufaorgsintez resumes PE production after lengthy turnaround

Sergey Karaichentsev

18-Oct-2018

MOSCOW (MRC)–Ufaorgsintez has resumed production at its second low density polyethylene (LDPE) line after lengthy maintenance, according to the ICIS-MRC Price report.

The plant’s customers said Ufaorgsintez had started sequential resumption of production since the end of last week after the shutdown for a scheduled turnaround.

The process of resuming polyethylene (PE) production and reaching full capacity utilisation after outage will take several days. The turnaround began on 19 September.

The company is a petrochemical asset of Bashneft, which is part of Rosneft.

Its first LDPE line (108 grade PE) had already resumed operations on 1 October after the turnaround – that line was also idle for a period of 30 days.

The process of reaching the designed capacity utilisation took more than a week.

Ufaorgsintez’s overall LDPE and high density polyethylene (HDPE) production capacities are about 90,000 and 120,000 tonnes per year, respectively.

As reported previously, Kazanorgsintez also intends to resume operations at its third LDPE line after a short outage by the end of this week. The plant’s total annual capacity is 225,000 tonnes.

Ufaorgsintez produces phenol, acetone, synthetic ethylene-propylene rubber, high and low density polyethylene, polypropylene, more than 30 types of petrochemical products as well as consumer products.

MRC, a partner of ICIS, produces polymers news and pricing reports from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

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