MOSCOW (MRC) -- Korea Petrochemical Industry Company (KPIC) has taken off-stream its olefins conversion unit (OCU) for maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in South Korea informed that the OCU was taken off-stream on October 7, 2013. It is likely to remain off-stream until end October 2013.
Located at Ulsan in South Korea, the OCU has a propylene production capacity of 110,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, Hanwha Chemical is likely to shut a dioctyl phthalate (DOP) plant for maintenance turnaround in end-October 2013. It is expected to remain shut for around two weeks. Located in Ulsan, South Korea, the plant has a production capacity of 80,000 mt/year.
We remind that South Korean petrochemical company LG Chem is planning to build an ethylene production plant in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. The project is going to be constacted in collaboration with two other Kazakh firms. The production is expected to begin in late 2016.
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