MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shandongis in plans to shut its No. 2 propylene unit for maintenance, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China, informed that, the company is likely to halt operations at the unit on July 13, 2019. The unit is expected to remain under maintenance for about four weeks.
Located at Dongying, in Shandong province of China, the No. 2 propylene unit has a production capacity of 100,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, in March 2018, Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical selected Spheripol polypropylene (PP) technology from LyondellBasell for implementation at a plant in Heze City, Shandong Province, China. The plant will be capable of producing 200,000mt of PP per year. Grades of PP produced using the Spheripol process are often used to make film for the safe storage of food and plastic pipes for the delivery of drinking water, as well as wastewater removal and sterile syringes in the healthcare sector.
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