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Taiwan’s CPC shut one of the steam crackers for maintenance

Taiwan’s CPC shut one of the steam crackers for maintenance


Ethylene  Propylene 


According to market sources, CPC Corporation has taken one of its naphtha crackers off-stream on 8 November 2019 for major maintenance work. The cracker number 4 is expected to remain offline for about 65 days and would resume operation by mid of January 2020.

The No. 4 unit has an annual capacity of 380,000 tons/year of ethylene and 193,000 tons/year of propylene. The shutdown would result in a production loss of 67,671 tons of ethylene and 34,370 tons of propylene.

Sources added that for December 2019 contract, CPC would fulfill only 85% of the volume due to the shutdown.


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Taiwan