MOSCOW (MRC) -- Japan's Idemitsu Kosan is in plans shut its naphtha cracker for a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the cracker is expected to be taken off-line for maintenance on April 9, 2019. The shutdown is likely to remain in force until end-May 2019.
Located at Chiba in Japan, the cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 410,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, Idemitsu Kosan shut its naphtha cracker for a maintenance turnaround in Chiba from September 20, 2017, to end-October 2017.
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese petroleum company. It owns and operates oil platforms, refineries and produces and sells petroleum, oils and petrochemical products. The company runs two petrochemical plants in Chiba and Tokuyama. The two naphtha crackers can produce up to 997,000 tonnes of ethylene per year.
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