MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiwan’s state-owned CPC Corporation has restarted its No. 4 cracker following a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the company has resumed operations at the plant on October 14, 2016. The cracker was taken off-line for a planned maintenance on October 6, 2016.
Located in Linyuan, Taiwan, the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 380,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 193,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, CPC Corp is resumed operations at its residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) unit following on September 3, 2016 following an unplanned outage. The unit was shut on August 16, 2016 owing to a technical glitch. Located at Dalin in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the RFCC has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
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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