MOSCOW (MRC) -- Thai Polyethylene Co, a subsidiary of Siam Cement Group, has restarted its high density polyethylene (HDPE) unit following a turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Thailand informed that the company has resumed operations at the unit on December 14, 2019. The plant was shut for maintenance and owing to economic fundamentals on November 26, 2019.
Located in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, the unit has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, on June 28, 2017, Thai Polyethylene took off-stream its No. 4 HDPE plant in Thailand for 15 days owing to tehcnical issues. Located at Map Tha Phut in Thailand, the unit has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's HDPE production totalled 729,500 tonnes in the first ten months of 2019, down by 8% year on year. Two producers out of three reduced their output.
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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