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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Dow Chemical has been
resuming operations at its three crackers at Freeport, Texas,
according to S&P Global.
These
crackers with a combined 3.2 million mt/year of ethylene capacity were shut
in mid-February, 2021, because of very low temperatures in the
region.
At present, it is unknown when Dow's crackers in
Freeport will be fully restarted.
As MRC informed earlier,
Dow Chemical shut its ethylene cracker No. 3 at its Plaquemine, Louisiana site
with the annual production of 758,000 mt for expansion from mid-September to
end-November 2016. After the restart this cracker can produce by 250,000 mt of
ethylene more than before.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for
producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2%
year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density
polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to
the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated using the
formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, excluding producers'
inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of exclusively PP random copolymer
increased.
The Dow Chemical Company is an American multinational chemical
corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. Dow is a large
producer of plastics, including polystyrene (PS), polyurethane, polyethylene,
polypropylene, and synthetic rubber. |
