(plastemart) --
Ethylene producers in Taiwan and Japan have made changes in their schedules for
plant shutdowns.
CPC Corp. (CPC) will permanently shut its No. 3
permanently shut its No. 3 naphtha cracker at Kaohsiung, with capacity to
produce 230,000 tpa of ethylene, at the end of May.
This is a delay of
atleast two months from the originally planned schedule, to ensure steady
supplies while it completes work on a new plant. Show Denko has delayed the
restart of its ethylene plant in Oita, Japan, to the end of May from March 30.
Production lines at the plant were shut for maintenance last month, and the
company has extended the shutdown after it discovered a fault in cooling
equipment on March 18. |
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