MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiwan’s state-owned CPC Corp. is in plans to restart its No.4 cracker following a maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the company is expected to resume production at its cracker on February 1, 2016. The cracker was shut on December 11, 2015.
Located in Linyuan, Taiwan, the cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 380,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 193,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, CPC Corp restarted its No. 6 cracker on January 13 after being shut for a minor turnaround the previous day.
All its crackers in Linyuan have a combined capacity of 1.08 million mt/year of ethylene as well as 500,000 mt/year of propylene.
CPC Corporation, Taiwan, is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, procurement, transportation, storage, and marketing of oil and gas. The company provides fuel oil, including automotive unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel, low-sulfur fuel oil, marine distillate fuels, marine residual fuels, and aviation fuel; petrochemicals, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, para-xylene, and ortho-xylene; liquefied petroleum gas products comprising liquefied petroleum gas, propane, butane, and a propane/butane mixture; lubricants, motor oil, industrial oil, grease, and marilube oil; SNC products, including petroleum ether, naphtha, toluene, xylene, crude octene, methyl alcohol, normal paraffin, viscosity-graded asphalt cement, and sulfur; and natural gas.
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