MOSCOW (MRC) -- Denka is in plans to shut its styrene monomer (SM) plant for maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the plant is likely to be shut in Q1, 2016. The duration of the shutdown could not be ascertained.
Located at Chiba in Japan, the plant has a production capacity of 270,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, in 2013, Denka, in order to accelerate business development to meet market demand, reorganized six business divisions into four units and renamed some of its departments.
Thus, the former Electronic Materials, Styrene, Chemicals, Cement and Special Cement Additives, Living and Environmental Products and Medical Sciences Divisions were transformed into the Elastomers & Performance Plastics, Infrastructure & Inorganic Materials, Electronics & Innovative Products and Life Sciences & Environment Products business units.
In addition, the Elastomers & Acetylene Black Dept. was renamed the Organic Chemicals Dept., the Agri-Products Dept. is now the Fertilizer Dept., and the Adhesives & Solutions Dept. is the Tapes & Adhesives Dept.
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