Indonesia’s Mitsubishi to shut PTA unit for maintenance; shares sales to complete by month-end

07 Mar 2024 Indonesian market participants said Mitsubishi Chemical Indonesia has not offered PET bottle grade to the spot market for some time now, possibly due to weak margins.

23 Feb 2024

Vietnam’s Long Son shut the mixed feed cracker on equipment issues

The cracker, designed to process naphtha and propane based on a 70:30 ratio has an annual output of 950,000 tons/year of ethylene and 400,000 tons/year of propylene.

23 Feb 2024

Fire hit refinery belong to South Korea’s S-Oil

According to media reports, a fire broke out at one of the pipelines located at the No.2 refinery that belongs to S-Oil in Ulsan, South Korea at 2.45PM on 23 February 2024.

19 Feb 2024

Malaysia’s Lotte Chemical Titan to carry out major maintenance work in 2024

The complex, which has been operating at reduced rates since the beginning of 2023, is now in the process of stock building in preparation for the shutdowns.

12 Feb 2024

Saudi’s Petro Rabigh to restart HDPE plant; LLDPE unit to enter maintenance

Petro Rabigh shut the 700,000 tons/year PP plant in January following unspecified issues at the upstream HOFCC cracking unit that disrupted the feedstocks supply.

31 Jan 2024

Taiwan’s Formosa shut PE units for maintenance; delayed restart at No. 3 cracker

On the other hand, the producer postponed the restart date at the No. 3 steam cracker to February from the initial schedule of early January citing negative margins.

30 Jan 2024

Saudi’s SEPC to expand ethylene cracker, Lummus Technology selected

The contract, announced on 11 January 2024, involves the design and supply of two Short Residence Time (SRT) pyrolysis cracking heaters, which is expected to boost the olefins outputs from the existing cracker by 18%.

30 Jan 2024

China’s Inner Mongolia Yihua unexpectedly shut PVC plant on equipment failure

Inner Mongolia Yihua Chemical Industry Co has declared an emergency shutdown at its carbide-based PVC plant in Inner Mongolia, China following an equipment failure

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