PRODUCTION NEWS

Capacity
Date Company Plant - Product ktons/yr Location Status Duration Notes
ASIA

Maintenance at Taoyuan plant

will take place during Chinese
Ocean Plastic New Year holiday between Feb 9-
February Corporation (OPC) PVC 150 Taiwan Shutdown 1w 15 or early February.

Company restarted carbide-

Shandong Dongyue based plant in Shandong on Feb
February Chem PVC 120 China Restart 16 after maintenance.

Company restarted Zhejiang

plant on Feb 16 after
February Formosa Ningbo PVC 400 China Restart maintenance.

The Chiba plant (90,000

tons/year), the Osaka plant
(170,000 tons/year) and the
Yokkaichi plant (310,0000
tons/year) are planned to be
March -April Taiyo Vinyl PVC 570 Japan Shutdown shut for maintenance

Maintenance shutdown at
Sinopec Qilu petrochemical complex in Zibo,
April-May Petrochemical PVC 600 China Shutdown 40 d Shandong.

Scheduled maintenance at
Kashima plant in May or June for
May-June Kaneka PVC 178 Japan Shutdown 3w three weeks.
Kashima plant to be shut for
June Shin-Etsu PVC 550 Japan Shutdown 2w maintenance.

November Kaneka PVC 277 Japan Shutdown 2w Maintenance at Tagosako.

Monomer

Maintenance shutdown in Chiba

between mid-Feb and end
March. Plant will be shut on
February-March Keiyo Monomer VCM 200 Japan Shutdown 6w February 19.

Ocean Plastic Maintenance during Chinese

February Corporation (OPC) VCM 150 Taiwan Shutdown 1w New Year Holiday.

2 VCM lines were down since

Feb 1 due to an explosion in a
February SP Chemicals VCM 500 China Shutdown nearby tank.
Mid-February-End Scheduled maintenance at
March Asahi Glass EDC 200 Japan Shutdown 40 d Chiba.
Maintenance shutdown at
Sinopec Qilu petrochemical complex in Zibo,
April-May Petrochemical VCM 500 China Shutdown 40 d Shandong.
Kashima plant to be shut for
June Shin-Etsu VCM 600 Japan Shutdown 2w maintenance.
Maintenance at No.1 and No.2
November Kaneka VCM 260 Japan Shutdown 2w units at Tagosako.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Thai Plastic And Plant was running normally as of

Chemicals Public Feb 5 after a maintenance that
December 2012- Company Limited Normal took place between Dec 2012-
February 2013 (TPC) PVC 530 Thailand operations 1m Jan 2013.

Monomer
 Maintenance in Map Ta Phut
plant between Jan 17-Feb 10.
Company planned to restart the
Thai Plastics and line on Feb 16, acc.to market
January-February Chemicals VCM 140 Thailand Restart 1m sources.

Maintenance will take place in

June Sulfindo EDC 370 Indonesia Shutdown 2-3 w Merak plant.

EUROPE

There is a market talk about the

company putting their customers
to 10-20% allocation in January
due to ethylene shortage
stemming from Naphtachimie
January-February KemOne PVC France Allocation cracker shutdown.
MIDDLE EAST-
AFRICA
AMERICAS

Company declared FM on
supplies on Jan 4 due to VCM
shortage at its supplier, PPG. But
it is unclear which of their plants
January-February Mexichem PVC Mexico Force Majeure were affected.

Company declared FM on output

from Geismar, Louisiana plant on
Feb 13 due to equipment failures
February Westlake PVC 300 USA Force Majeure related to its VCM unit.

Formosa was heard to be

planning a shutdown at Point
Comfort, LA in late Jan or early
Feb, acc. to market sources.
Shutdown may start in late Jan,
reports on Dec 20 said.
Late February- Shutdown is expected to start in
March Formosa PVC 575 USA Shutdown 3w late Feb, reports on Jan 30 said.

Late February- Maintenance at Freeport, TX

March Shintech PVC 3000 USA Shutdown 3w plant.

Scheduled maintenance at
March Georgia Gulf PVC USA Shutdown 2w Plaquemine, Louisiana, facility.
Company was heard to be
planning a maintenance at
Mid-March-April Axiall PVC 1600 USA Shutdown 3w Plaquemine, Louisiana.

Monomer
 Force majeure declared Dec 27
after a fire from Lake Charles, LA
site. Company expects to restart
it in late Jan to run it at 70%
capacity. Repair works were still
underway on Jan 24. FM was to
be lifted in the week Jan 28-Feb
3, although no confirmation was
available, acc.to sources.
Company was to run the plant at
December 2012 - reduced rates by end Jan,
February 2013 PPG VCM 522 USA Force Majeure sources said on Jan 31.
Formosa may start a shutdown
at Baton Rouge, TX during H2
H2 February- February, acc.to reports on Jan
March Formosa VCM 795 USA Shutdown 3w 31.
NEW CAPACITIES
Capacity
Date Company Plant - Product ktons/yr Location Column1 Column2 Notes
Asia

The company is to complete the

Shaanxi Jintai Chlor construction of their new PVC
Q3 - Q4 2012 Alkali Chemical PVC 150 China Expansion plant during Q3-Q4.

Inner Mongolia Erdos

EJM Manganese Acetylene based PVC to be put
October 2012 Alloys Co. Ltd PVC 400 China Start up into operation in October

2012 Vivanta PVC 227 India New capacity.

New capacity was expected to

2012 Finolex Industries Ltd. PVC 40 India come onstream in June 2012
Reliance Industries
Q3 - 2013 Ltd. PVC 345 India New capacity is planned

Monomer
The company starts expanding
its 400,000 tons/year No 3 VCM
plant in Nanyo by 200,000
tons/year in Nov 2012. It is
expected to be completed in Oct
October 2014 Tosoh VCM 400 Japan Expansion 2014
EUROPE
Ceremony for laying of the
foundation took place in July
2013 Rusvinyl PVC 330 Russia 2010

Company to increase PVC

emulsion capacity by 7.000 t/y to
2013 Kem One PVC 42 Spain Expansion 42.000 t/y at Hernani plant.
Monomer

KarpatNeftechim plans to shut

their VCM unit at the end of
End 2012 KarpatNeftechim VCM Ukraine Expansion 2012 for an expansion.

Americas
 New plant brought online in
April, run at low rates due to lack
of VCM. Production will be raised
April - August 2012 Braskem PVC 200 Brazil Op rates raised 2H Aug 2012.

The company will add 90,000

tons/year of PVC production
capacity to reach around
600,000 tons/year in line with
the conversion of its Calvert City,
Kentucky steam cracker to
End 2014 Westlake PVC 600 US Expansion ethane feedstock from propane

Monomer
Companies plan to create a joint
venture and start operating in
Q1 2012 Mexichem-Pemex VCM 400 Mexico 2012
Brand new plant to start up in
May 2012 Braskem VCM 200 Brazil May 2012.
PLANT CLOSURES
Capacity
Date Company Plant - Product ktons/yr Location Column1 Column2 Notes
Asia

The company will exit the vinyl

sector and close the PVC plant in
Kertih Integrated Petrochemical
Early 2013 Petronas Chemical PVC 150 Malaysia Closure Complex, owned by VC Malaysia
Monomers
The company will exit the vinyl
sector and close the VCM plant
in Kertih Integrated
Petrochemical Complex, owned
Early 2013 Petronas Chemical VCM 440 Malaysia Closure by VC Malaysia
EUROPE

Company to close the Runcorn

January Ineos ChlorVinyls PVC 105 UK Closure plant due to overcapacity.
Company may end PVC
production in Ravenna
permanently, market sources
January Industrie Generali PVC Italy Closure said on January 29.

Monomers
Company to close the Runcorn
January Ineos ChlorVinyls VCM 300 UK Closure plant due to overcapacity.
Notes:
(i) Under duration "d" denotes day, "w" denotes week, "m" denotes month.
(ii) Updates made during the current week are marked in red.
(iii) Where the plant is listed as Cracker, the capacity refers to Ethylene.