MOSCOW (MRC) -- SK Global Chemical has scheduled a maintenance turnaround at its polypropylene (PP) plants in H2 2016, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in South Korea informed that the plants are planned to be shut in September-October 2016. It is likely to remain off-stream for around 30-40 days.
Located in Ulsan, South Korea, the No.1 PP plant has a production capacity of 183,000 mt/year and No.2 PP plant has a production capacity of 193,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, in October 2015, SABIC and South Korean petrochemical company SK Global Chemical inaugurated a new industrial plant to manufacture a range of high-performance polyethylene products using the cutting-edge Nexlene Solution Technology. The 50-50 joint venture holding company, SABIC SK Nexlene Company (SSNC) was established in July 2014 and is headquartered in Singapore. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Korea Nexlene Company (KNC), owns the plant in Ulsan, which has an annual capacity of 230,000 tons.
SK Global Chemical is a pioneering petrochemical company in Korea, being the first in the country to build a naphtha cracking facility in 1972. Through continuous facility investment, R&D and technological improvement, the company has maintained its position as the leader of the petrochemical industry in Korea.
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