MOSCOW (MRC) -- SCG plastics is in plans to take its polypropylene (PP) unit off-stream for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Thailand informed that the unit is expected to be taken off-line in first half of November 2016. It is slated to remain shut for a period of around 15 days.
Located in Thailand, the unit has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, in April 2016, SCG said its planned petrochemical complex in Vietnam would be further postponed by six months, pending the conclusion of an agreement with a new joint-venture partner following the exit of Qatar Petroleum International (QPI). The USD4.5-billion fully integrated complex is to be the first of its kind in Vietnam and a key regional flagship for the Thai conglomerate.
SCG Chemicals is a subsidiary of SCG and is one of SCG’s 3 core businesses consisting of Chemicals, Paper and Cement-Building Materials. SCG embarked upon the chemicals business in 1989. At present, SCG Chemicals manufactures and supplies a full range of petrochemical products ranging from upstream petrochemicals such as Olefins, intermediate petrochemicals such as Styrene Monomer, PTA, and MMA, to downstream petrochemicals such as Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Polyvinyl Chloride, and Polystyrene resins. SCG Chemicals is now one of the largest integrated petrochemical companies in Thailand and a key industry leader in the Asia-Pacific region.
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