MOSCOW (MRC) -- Daqing Petrochemical has shut a high density polyethylene/linear low density polyethylene (HDPE/LLDPE) swing plant for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the plant was taken off-line for maintenance on September 6, 2017. It is likely to remain under turnaround for about one week.
Located in Daqing city, China, the plant has a production capacity of 250,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, in 2012, Daqing Petrochemical successfully commenced production at the newly built 600,000 tpa ethylene unit, which broght the company's annual ethylene production to 1,2 mln tonnes.
Daqing Petrochemical Company is a regional branch company of Petro-China Company Limited. It is a giant-scale petrochemical complex producing oil products, chemicals, fertilizers and chemical fiber with the major raw materials of crude oil, light hydrocarbon and natural gas from Daqing oilfield.
MRC