Indonesia’s Chandra Asri to test mPE production in March

It is reported that PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk is planning to conduct a trial production at its newly expanded PE plant in Cilegon this March to produce metallocene PE grade. 

The company expanded PE capacity in 2019 by adding one more production line that pushed the total output to 736,000 tons/year. CommoPlast was informed that the newest 400,000 tons/year HDPE/LLDPE swing line would be utilized for the mPE trial production purpose.

At the moment, it is unclear on how long the mPE trial run would take, however, a source close to the producer expected the line to return to produce normal grade within a month.  

In the same complex, Chandra Asri owns a 560,000 tons/year PP plant and a steam cracker that produces 900,000 tons/year of ethylene and 490,000 tons/year of propylene.