Material from Saudi's Sadara appears in China

Chinese buyers this week reported receiving off-grade LLDPE film cargoes from Sadara Chemical Company after an extended period of delayed start up due to persistent technical issues. Despite the quantity is not significant; the emergence of these cargoes triggered expectation among players about a possibility that prime grades would soon to come.   

Sadara Chemical Company is located in Al Sharqiya, Saudi Arabia – the first petrochemical complex in the Kingdom using naphtha as primary feed. Its plant is designed to produce 1.5 million ton/year of ethylene and 400,000 ton/year of propylene. Downstream units including a LDPE line with annual capacity of 350,000 ton/year and two HDPE/LLDPE swing lines with total capacity of 750,000 tons/year.

Market sources informed that the company might bring its naphtha cracker online in the coming month, which might help to boost production rate at the downstream units by quarter 4.