China's Sinopec Sichuan Vinylon runs VAM plants at 70% on natural gas shortage

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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--China's Sinopec Sichuan Vinylon Works is currently operating its vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plants at a lower rate of around 70% of capacity on the back of a fiveday outage in the previous week and amid the prevailing shortage of feedstock natural gas supply, according to a company official. The plants - which have a combined annual production capacity of 500,000 tonnes located at Chongqing, Sichuan province - were previously operating at 75-80% of capacity since mid- November due to curtailed natural gas supply, as the feedstock is being channelled to meet winter heating demand.