MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Tianjin Co (Tianjin United Chemical) is in plans to bring on-stream its naphtha cracker following a turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that, the company is likely to resume operations at the cracker by early-July, 2020. The cracker was shut for maintenance on May 9, 2020.
Located at Tianjin, China, the cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 240,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 100,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, Sinopec SABIC Tianjin Petrochemical Co. (SSTPC), a 50-50 joint venture of Sinopec and SABIC, shut its naphtha cracker in Tianjin on 1 May 2020 for routine maintenance work. The cracker is expected to remain off-line until early July 2020. The naphtha cracker is designed to produce 1 million tons/year of ethylene, which supplies several local buyers in the Tianjin area. Besides, the company is also planning to expand its cracker capacity to 1.3 million tons/year in 2021.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 595,170 tonnes in the first five month of 2020, up by 10% year on year. Deliveries of all ethylene polymers, except for linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), rose partially because of an increase in capacity utilisation at ZapSibNeftekhim. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market was 457,930 tonnes in January-May 2020 (calculated by the formula production minus export plus import). Deliveris of exclusively PP random copolymer increased.
China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) is a super-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group established in July 1998 on the basis of the former China Petrochemical Corporation. Sinopec Group"s key business activities include the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, petrochemicals and other chemical products, oil refining.
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