MOSCOW (MRC) -- CPC Corp is in plans to take its No 3 aromatics plant off-stream for a scheduled maintenance turnaround, reported S&P Global with reference to several industry sources' statement on July 9.
Thus, the unit is to be shut from mid-July to the end of September, 2021.
Located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the unit can produce 27,000 mt/year of benzene, 135,000 mt/year of toluene and 156,000 mt/year of isomer-MX.
As MRC informed previously, CPC Corporation shut its No. 7 aromatics plant in Taiwan for a maintenance turnaround on February 13, 2017. It remained off-stream for around 25-30 days. Located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the plant has a benzene capacity of around 205,000 mt/year and toluene capacity of 100,000 mt/year.
Benzene is a feedstock for the production of styrene monomer (SM), which, in its turn, is the main raw material for the production of polystyrene (PS).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated consumption of PS and styrene plastics totalled 236,110 tonnes in the first five months of 2021, up by 27% year on year (172,360 tonnes). May estimated consumption was 48,880 tonnes, up by 66% year on year.
CPC Corporation, Taiwan, is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, procurement, transportation, storage, and marketing of oil and gas. The company provides fuel oil, including automotive unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel, low-sulfur fuel oil, marine distillate fuels, marine residual fuels, and aviation fuel; petrochemicals, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, para-xylene, and ortho-xylene; liquefied petroleum gas products comprising liquefied petroleum gas, propane, butane, and a propane/butane mixture; lubricants, motor oil, industrial oil, grease, and marilube oil; SNC products, including petroleum ether, naphtha, toluene, xylene, crude octene, methyl alcohol, normal paraffin, viscosity-graded asphalt cement, and sulfur; and natural gas.
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