Indonesia’s Chandra Asri declared force majeure at steam cracker

25 Oct 2022 In an official letter to customers, the producer said the event has severely affected its ability to fulfil contract obligations for both PP and PE cargoes

14 Oct 2022

China's CNPC Guangdong started up new PP plant; PE units to follow suit

According to market sources, CNPC Guangdong Petrochemical (or Jieyang Refinery) has successfully started up the newly constructed PP unit in Guangdong on 13 October 2022

06 Oct 2022

UPDATE: Hyosung restarted PDH plant; aimed to ramp up operation in a week

The producer reportedly targets to stabilise the production and reach 100% capacity within a week.

10 Sep 2022

A fire broke out at Vietnam's Long Son Petrochemical plant

Earlier this month, Vietnamese market participants reported that Long Son Petrochemical successfully brought online the 450,000 tons/year HDPE unit

30 Aug 2022

India’s Reliance announced expansion plans at PVC plants

On 29 August 2022, Reliance Industries announced investment plans to boost PVC production outputs in India by 1.5 million tons by 2025-2026, effectively reducing the country’s heavy dependency on imports.

25 Aug 2022

Vietnam’s Hyosung to shut PDH unit and part of PP plant in September

There have been reports that the producer might stop production at one of the PP lines as a result of the shutdown at the upstream plant, however, further details are not available at the time of this report.

25 Aug 2022

UPDATE: Vietnam’s Long Son started up the HDPE plant following a slight delay

According to market sources, Long Son Petrochemical has successfully brought online the first polyolefin unit at the newly constructed petrochemical complex in Southern Vietnam

09 Aug 2022

UPDATE: Malaysia’s PrefChem to startup HDPE and PP2 plant in August

PrefChem is a 50%-50% joint venture between Petronas and Saudi Aramco. The complex houses a naphtha cracker that produces 1.2 million tons/year of ethylene and 600,000 tons/year of propylene.

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