MOSCOW (MRC) -- Yeochun Naphtha Cracking Centre (YNCC) has restarted its No. 1 naphtha cracker following a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in South Korea, informed that, the company has resumed operations at the cracker on June 21, 2019. The cracker was taken off-stream on May 20, 2019.
Located at Yeosu,South Korea, the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 860,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 485,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, YNCC also has two other crackers at this site. Thus, the production capacity of its No. 2 naphtha cracker in Yeosu is 578,000 tonnes of ethylene per year ant that of its No.3 cracker - 470,000 tonnes of ethylene per year.
South Korea’s Yeochun NCC (YNCC) pyrolyzes naphtha to produce basic feedstock materials for the petrochemical industry. YNCC, a joint venture between South Korean firms Hanwha and Daelim, is a key exporter of ethylene and propylene in the country.
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