MOSCOW (MRC) -- Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corp (GPPC) is likely to shut its styrene monomer (SM) plant for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the plant is planned to be shut for maintenance in mid-April 2018. It is slated to remain off-line for a period of around four weeks.
Located at Kaohsiung in Taiwan, the SM plant has a production capacity of 250,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, this year, GPPC conducted maintenance at this SM plant from mid-February to 9 April.
Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corp (GPPC) was founded in 1973. Starting with styrene monomer, commonly known as SM, GPPC and its subsidiaries have gradually broadened the product line to include SM, ABS, SAN, PS, and H2. Currently, GPPC has two SM plants with a total annual capacity of 330,000 metric tons, an ABS/SAN plant producing 80,000 metric tons per annum and a hydrogen plant with a capacity of 600 cubic meters per hour. In addition, two GPPC's subsidiaries, GPPC chemical and BC chemical, are engaged in the polystyrene (PS) production with a combined annual capacity of 100,000 metric tons. Anticipating the regional fast growth, GPPC invested in Grand Pacific Chemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and founded Zhenjiang GPPC Chemical Co., Ltd.(China) for the ABS production in 1991 and 1996, respectively.
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