MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical has brought-stream its low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant following an unplanned outage, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has resumed operations at the plant on April 26, 2019. The plant was shut on April 11, 2019 owing to shortage of feedstock.
Located at Guangdong in China, the plant has a production capacity of 120,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, in 2018, Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical shut its No. 2 LDPE unit for a brief maintenance from July 14 to July 19. Located at Guangdong in China, the No. 2 unit has a production capacity of 280,000 mt/year.
Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical Company (Maoming Company) - a subsidiary of Sinopec- is located in Maoming, Guangdong and was founded in May 1955. The company now has a crude oil processing capacity of 13.5 million t/a and an ethylene production capacity of 1 million t/a. Maoming Company has turned out to be a large-scale integrated refining and chemical enterprise with refining as the leading business and petrochemical sector as the mainstay.
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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