MOSCOW (MRC) -- Petrochemical Malaysia, a subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co, has restarted a polystyrene (PS) plant, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Malaysia informed that the plant restarted early this week. Its was under a maintenance turnaround.
Located in Malaysia, the plant has a production capacity of 110,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, Idemitsu Kosan, one of Japan’s largest refining and petrochemical companies, will be shutting its refinery in Japan for maintenance turnaround in April 2015. It is likely to remain off-stream for around one month. Located at Chiba in Japan, the refinery has a crude processing capacity of 220,000 bpd.
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese petroleum company. It owns and operates oil platforms, refineries and produces and sells petroleum, oils and petrochemical products. The company runs two petrochemical plants in Chiba and Tokuyama. The two naphtha crackers can produce up to 997,000 tonnes of ethylene per year.
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