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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Thailand’s PTTGC is
planning to shut its LDPE unit in Map Ta Phut, Thailand for a planned
turnaround on 1 October, 2019, according to NCT.
The maintenance works
are expected to last until 30 October.
The unit is able to produce
300,000 tons/year of LDPE.
PTT currently has a total capacity of 800,000
mt/year of high density polyethylene (HDPE), 300,000 mt/year of low density
polyethylene and 800,000 mt/year of LLDPE at the same site.
As MRC informed earlier,
PTT started commercial operations at its new 400,000 mt/year metallocene C6
linear low density polyethylene plant at Map Ta Phut, Thailand, in the first
quarter of 2018.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated LDPE consumption totalled 338,390 tonnes in the first seven
months of 2019, up by 3% year on year. Some producers' LDPE output decreased,
exports also subsided. Excessive supply of LDPE vanished in the market in August
because of the shutdowns at two plants at once. And there was even a slight
shortage already in the second half of the month.
PTT Global Chemical is
a leading player in the petrochemical industry and owns several petrochemical
facilities with a combined capacity of 8.45 million tonnes a year. |
