Technical glitches at China’s Jiutai PP and PE plants

According to market sources, Inner Mongolia Jiutai Energy Co Ltd has unexpectedly shut its PP and PE plants today due to technical glitches.

Based in Inner Mongolia, China, the company has a 600,000 tons/year MTO plant, coal-based 280,000 tons/year HDPE/LLDPE swing plant and 320,000 tons/year PP plant which were just newly started since May this year. The plants are expected to remain off-stream for 5 days.