Idemitsu Kosan shut a naphtha cracking facility at its Tokuyama plant
January 18/2012
(Reuters) -- Japanese refiner Idemitsu
Kosan Co said it shut a naphtha cracking facility at its Tokuyama plant in
western Japan on Tuesday night after an unspecified
problem.
The company has been making repairs and expects it to resume operations in a
few days, a spokesman said.
The Tokuyama plant has two naphtha crackers with total capacity of
623,000 tonnes per year of ethylene, but the spokesman could not immediately
confirm if both crackers had been shut.
