MOSCOW (MRC) -- HMC Polymers, an affiliate of PTT and LyondellBasell, is in plans to resume production at its PP unit following a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Thailand informed that the unit was taken off-stream last week and is expected to be brought on-stream this week.
Located in Rayong province, Thailand, the PP unit has production capacity of 150,000 mt/year.
The company also operates two other PP units at the same site with a production capacity of 300,000 mt/year each.
As MRC reported earlier, in H1 October 2015, HMC Polymers shut its PP plant for an unplanned outage owing to technical issues at its upstream unit. The plant resumed production in H2 October 2015. Located in Map Ta Phut, Rayong province, Thailand, the PP plant has three lines with a combined production capacity of 750,000 mt/year.
In 2010, HMC Polymers increased the production capacity of its PP plant by 300,000 tonnes from 450,000 tonnes in a bid to serve growing demand for polypropylene both domestically and internationally.
HMC Polymers is one of the leading companies in the manufacturing and marketing of polypropylene (PP) for Asia and worldwide. HMC Polymers is the first PP manufacturer in Thailand with its first PP production facility to have been established in Rayong Province, Thailand in 1987. The company's PP production facilities output is over 750,000 metric tons per year and comprise two Spheripol lines and a latest technology Spherizone line from LyondellBasell. HMC Polymers produces a wide range of Moplen polypropylene grades including homopolymer, heterophasic and random copolymer resins, as well as specialty polypropylene resins such as Adstif, Clyrell and Purell. In addition, a strategic investment in upstream integration was made in parallel with the construction of a Propane Dehydrogenation plant (PDH) at a site adjacent to our Map Ta Phut plant.
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