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(Plastemart) -- Japan’s ethylene producers have 23% of their capacity shut
following the country’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as per Chemical Market
Associates Inc. No ethylene capacity has been restarted since CMAI’s last report
on March 18.
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp., Japan’s biggest ethylene maker, will
take at least two months to resume operations at its Kashima plant because of
damage to berths, utility infrastructure and roads. Two naphtha crackers at the
Kashima facility are responsible for almost 11% of Japan’s ethylene capacity and
2.4% of capacity in northeast Asia.
Other curtailments include 37% of Japan’s polyethylene plastic capacity and 46% of its PVC plastic capacity. About 27% propylene capacity and
35% polypropylene capacity remain shut.
mrcplast.com
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