MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shandong Chambroad Petrochemicals, has taken its No.1 propylene unit off-stream for a turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that, the company has started maintenance at the plant on March 25, 2020. The plant is likely to resume production on May 8, 2020.
Located at Shandong province of China, the No. 1 plant has a production capacity of 125,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, in September 2018, LyondellBasell announced that Shandong Chambroad Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., (Shandong Chambroad), had selected the LyondellBasell Hostalen "Advance Cascade Process" (Hostalen ACP) technology. The low-pressure slurry process technology will be used for a 350KTA high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit to be built in their petrochemical complex in Binzhou city, Shandong province, P.R. China.
Propylene is the main feedstock for producing polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market were 127,240 tonnes in January 2020, up by 33% year on year. ZapSibNeftekhim's homopolymer PP accounted for the main increase in shipments.
Shandong Chambroad Petrochemicals Co.,Ltd is founded in 1988,whose predecessor is Boxing lubricating oil factory.After more than 20 years of trails and hardships,Chambroad has now developed into a large-scale private petrochamical enterprise intergrating petroleum refining and chemical industry. Besides, Chambroad has successively been awarded "one of top 500 manufacturing enterprise of China" and "one of top 500 chemical enterprise of China".
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