Kazan company plans 19 September completely stop the capacity of the third stage of LDPE (annual capacity of 117 million tons). Downtime will last until the end of this month.

Stop production associated largely with the lack of ethylene (by the end of the week at prevention will stop the production capacity of ethylene Nizhnekamskneftekhim is one of the key suppliers of ethylene for KOS). In the third phase of LDPE is produced mainly 158-I 153-I of the brand of polyethylene.

From the 19th of September Kazanorgsintez plans to start serial stop at the prevention of the production of high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

As noted earlier, the largest manufacturer of LDPE in Russia – Tomskneftekhim (SIBUR) 28th August stopped their capacity for prevention. Downtime will last until the 24th of September. Annual production capacity is 240 thousand tons.

Kazanorgsintez (TAIF) is one of the largest chemical enterprises in Russia. The company produces more than 40% of all Russian polyethylene, and also produces polyethylene pipes. The company is the largest Russian manufacturer of pipe high-density polyethylene (HDPE). The annual production capacity of HDPE is 540 thousand tons, and LDPE – 217 thousand tons