MOSCOW (MRC) -- Nippon Steel Chemical Company (NSCC) has restarted its No.3 styrene monomer (SM) plant, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the plant restarted on April 13, 2014. The plant was shut for maintenance in end-February 2014.
Located in Oita, Japan, the plant has a production capacity of 230,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported previously, Idemitsu Kosan, one of Japan’s largest refining and petrochemical companies, is in plans to shut its SM plant for maintenance turnaround in April 2014. It will remain off-stream for around one month. Located in Chiba, Japan, the plant has a production capacity of 210,000 mt/year.
Besides, last October, Tosoh Corp. said it would examine and prepare the company for a merger with its wholly-owned subsidiary Nippon Polyurethane Industry Co. (NPU), subsequently dissolving the NPU subsidiary upon completion of the merger.
The Nippon Oil Corporation, or NOC or Shin-Nisseki is a Japanese petroleum company. Its businesses include the exploration, importation, and refining of crude oil; the manufacture and sale of petroleum products, including olefines (ethylene, propylene) and aromatics.
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