Russia January PP production up by 23% year on year

MOSCOW (MRC)–Russian January polypropylene (PP) production fell by 23% year on year to 100,900 tonnes, according to the MRC ScanPlast report.

SIBUR Tobolsk and Stavrolen decreased capacity utilisation significantly.

Total PP production in Russia exceeded 1.37m tonnes in 2018.

The structure of PP production by plants looked the following way over the stated period;

SIBUR Tobolsk worked with reduced capacity utilisation due to technical problems in January, with  total production decreasing to 18,600 tonnes from 47,700 tonnes in the same month a year earlier.

Total PP production at SIBUR Tobolsk in 2018 reached 436,100 tonnes.

Poliom (Titan Group) last month produced around 19,300 tonnes of PP, compared with 18,500 tonnes in January 2018.

Total PP production at the Poliom plant in 2018 was about 214,200 tonnes.

Nizhnekamskneftekhim produced 18,400 tonnes of propylene polymers in January versus 18,300 tonnes in the same period the year before. Nizhnekamskneftekhim’s production of polymer rose to 215,800 tonnes in 2018.

Tomskneftekhim in January produced around 12,600 tonnes against 12,700 tonnes in January 2018. Total PP production at the plant in 2018 was about 141,300 tonnes.

January PP production at Ufaorgsintez reached about 11,700 tonnes from 11,600 tonnes in the same month of 2018. Ufaorgsintez’s production of polymer did not exceed to 119,300 tonnes in 2018.

Neftekhimiya (Kapotnya) last month produced about 12,500 tonnes of PP, compared with 12,300 tonnes in January 2018. The plant’s overall production reached 131,400 tonnes last year.

Stavrolen (LUKOIL) produced slightly more than 7,800 tonnes of PP in January against 10,200 tonnes year on year. The Budenovsk plant’s overall production of propylene polymers reached 111,800 tonnes last year.

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