MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Sabic Tianjin Petrochemical has restarted a high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant following a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has completed maintenance at the plant last weekend. The plant was under maintenance from July 18, 2017.
Located in Tianjin city, China, the plant has a production capacity of 300,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, Sinopec Sabic Tianjin Petrochemical Co. (SSTPC) started up a 1-million-t/y ethylene cracker in Tianjin, China, in 2010, and in 2012 it began construction on a new 260,000-t/y polycarbonate plant at Tianjin, which began operations in 2015.
China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) is a super-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group established in July 1998 on the basis of the former China Petrochemical Corporation. Sinopec Group's key business activities include the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, petrochemicals and other chemical products, oil refining.
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) ranks among the world's top petrochemical companies. The company is among the world's market leaders in the production of polyethylene, polypropylene and other advanced thermoplastics, glycols, methanol and fertilizers.
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