Philippines' JG Summit to restart cracker after maintenance

Market sources reported that JG Summit Holdings is due to restart its sole naphtha cracker in the Philippines today, 24 February 2020 following a major maintenance shutdown since 6 October 2019.

During the overhaul, the company also expanded the cracker to add another 160,000 tons/year of ethylene and 50,000 tons of propylene to the existing output. The total production at the cracker increased to 480,000 tons/year of ethylene and 240,000 tons/year of propylene.