MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical has restarted its No. 3 polypropylene (PP) unit following a brief maintenance, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has resumed operations at the unit on March 22, 2019. The plant was shut for maintenance on March 17, 2019.
Located in Jiangsu province, China, the No. 3 PP Unit has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, in November 2018, Sinopec International and Sinopec-SK (Wuhan) Petrochemical Co. (Wuhan) selected LyondellBasell's Hostalen ACP (Advanced Cascade Process) technology for a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in China. The new 300,000-t/y HDPE unit, to be built in Wuhan, Hubei Province, will be the ninth Hostalen ACP line licensed in China, LyondellBasell noted. A schedule for the project was not given.
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company based in Beijing, China. It is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai and New York . Sinopec is the worlds fifth biggest company by revenue.
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