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According to market sources, South Korea's Yeochun Naphtha Cracking Center (YNCC) has restarted its olefin conversion unit (OCU) on Monday, 29 August 2016 and currently operating at 70% capacity. Sources said that the company would maintain the current run rate still end of September.

The OCU that produce 140,000 tons of propylene per annum was shut on 3 August 2016 due to mechanical glitch. It uses ethylene and crude C-4 as feedstock.