MOSCOW (MRC) -- SCG Chemicals Co Ltd is planning to take one of its polypropylene (PP) plants in Map Ta Phut off-stream for maintenance by late January 2020, reported CommoPlast with reference to market sources.
The No. 2 PP unit has an annual capacity of 160,000 tons would be offline for 16 days.
Meanwhile, the No. 1 and No. 3 units are not affected by the maintenance this time.
As MRC wrote previously, SCG plastics took its high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant off-stream for a maintenance turnaround on November 26, 2019. It remained under maintenance until December 14, 2019. Located in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, the plant has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
According to MRC's DataScope report, PP imports into Russia dropped in the first eleven months of 2019 by 4% year on year to 167,400 tonnes. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the greatest decrease in imports.
SCG Chemicals is a subsidiary of SCG and is one of SCG’s 3 core businesses consisting of Chemicals, Paper and Cement-Building Materials. SCG embarked upon the chemicals business in 1989. At present, SCG Chemicals manufactures and supplies a full range of petrochemical products ranging from upstream petrochemicals such as Olefins, intermediate petrochemicals such as Styrene Monomer, PTA, and MMA, to downstream petrochemicals such as Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Polyvinyl Chloride, and Polystyrene resins. SCG Chemicals is now one of the largest integrated petrochemical companies in Thailand and a key industry leader in the Asia-Pacific region.
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