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

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.