MOSCOW (MRC) -- Hyosung Vina Chemicals Co Ltd, part of South Korean Hyosung Corporation, has taken off-stream its new 600,000 tons/year propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Southern Vietnam for maintenance turnaround, according to CommoPlast.
Thus, this PDH unit was shut on 4 February, 2021, for equipment repair and is expected to resume operations in early March, 2021.
As MRC informed before, the company started up its new PDH unit in Southern Vietnam in August, 2021. The start-up of this unit enabled the launch of the company's second polypropylene (PP) plant with a capacity of 300,000 tons/year at the same site.
The company already operates No. 1 PP plant in Southern Vietnam with the same production capacity, using external sources of propylene. It was shut down on 9 July, 2021, due to an unspecified technical issue and remained off-line between three to four weeks.
We remind that following the start-up at the newly constructed PP plant in Vietnam on 12 February 2020, it was reported that Hyosung reached on-spec cargoes approximately in mid-February. The first prime grade parcels were homo-PP yarn grade F501N with a melt index of 3.7.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market were 1,363,850 tonnes in January-November, 2021, up by 25% year on year. Supply of homopolymer PP and block-copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymers) increased, whereas supply of injection moulding PP random copolymers decreased significantly.
Hyosung Corporation is a Korean industrial conglomerate, founded in 1957. It operates in various fields, including the chemical industry, industrial machinery, IT, trade, and construction.
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