MOSCOW (MRC) -- Japan’s Osaka Petrochemical Industries Ltd shut its 500,000-tonne-per-year naphtha cracker on Thursday for maintenance, reported Reuters with reference to its parent Mitsui Chemicals.
The cracker, which is to be shut until July 24, is set to be restarted the following day, a Mitsui Chemicals spokesman said.
Osaka Petrochemical is a wholly-owned unit of Mitsui Chemicals.
As MRC wrote earlier, Mitsui Chemicals is likely to take its naphtha-fed steam cracker off-stream for a maintenance turnaround. The plant is likely to be taken off-line for turnaround in mid-June 2018. It is slated to remain under maintenance until end-July 2018. Located in Sakai, Japan, the cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 500,000 mt/year and propylene production capacity of 280,000 mt/year.
Mitsui Chemicals is a leading manufacturer and supplier of value added specialty chemicals, plastics and materials for the automotive, healthcare, packaging, agricultural, building, and semiconductor and electronics markets. Mitsui Chemicals is a Japanese Chemicals company, a part of the Mitsui conglomerate. The company has a turnover of around 15 billion USD and has business interests in Japan, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the USA. The company mainly deals in performance materials, petro and basic chemicals and functional polymeric materials.
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