HIPS plant likely to be taken off-stream by Versalis

Versalis is in plans to shut a high impact polystyrene (HIPS) plant for maintenance turnaround.

A Polymerupdate source in Italy informed that the plant is planned to be shut in September 2015. It is expected to remain off-stream for around 15 days.

Located in Mantova, Italy, the plant has a production capacity of 125,000 mt/year.

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