UPDATE: China's Sinochem to start-up new HDPE, PP plants

Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical is planning to bring its newly constructed HDPE and PP plants online by 20 September and 30 September respectively, market sources said. The company has also scheduled to bring the 1 million tons/year ethylene cracker on stream on 15 September 2020. 

Sinochem has been performing trial operations at the downstream units since August. 

Besides the cracker, the petrochemical complex houses a 350,000 tons/year PP line and 450,000 tons/year HDPE line. Meanwhile, the 200,000 tons/year LDPE line would only come online by the first quarter of 2021.