MOSCOW (MRC) -- Tongsuh Petrochemical has brought on-stream its No.3 acrylonitrile (ACN) plant following a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has resumed operations at its plant during last week. The plant was shut for maintenance in mid-October 2015.
Located in Ulsan, South Korea, the plant has a production capacity of 245,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, Tongsuh Petrochemical began commercial production of a new line at its ACN plant in January 2013. Tongsuh added line No.4 at its Ulsan based ACN plant, which will have a production capacity of 245,000 tons per year. Tongsuh had an ACN capacity of 315,000 tons per annum and with the addition of the new ACN line in 2013 reached 560,000 tons per year.
Tongsuh Petrochemical Corp., Ltd. manufactures acrylonitrile, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, and ammonium sulfate. The company also offers related derivatives and co-products, such as sodium cyanide, EDTA, acrylamide, and acetonitrile. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Ulsan, South Korea. Tongsuh Petrochemical Corp., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Asahi Kasei Corporation.
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