MOSCOW (MRC) -- Last year's overall production of low density polyethylene (LDPE) in Belarus dropped by 1.1%  and totalled 136,000 tonnes, reported MRC analysts.

 

According to the National Statistics Committee of Belarus, Polymir, the local polyethylene (PE) producer, maintained in December its November PE output - about 12,000 tonnes. Thus, the overall LDPE production in Belarus was about 136,000 tonnes from January to December 2014 versus 137,500 tonnes a year earlier.

 

Polymir was founded in 1968. Technologies of the largest foreign firms of England, Japan, Germany, Italy (Courtaulds, Asahi Chemical Co. Ltd, Kanematsu Gosho, SNIA BPD, etc.), as well as developments of the CIS' scientific research institutes, were used in the process of creating the plant"s technological base. The plant's annual production capacity is 130,000 tonnes of LDPE.