South Korea’s YNCC to shut No. 3 cracker on poor economic.

16 Aug 2023 YNCC is among the latest cracking operators to embrace long-term shutdowns due to poor economic. In April, LG Chem took the newly constructed naphtha cracker in Yeosu offline without a definite restart schedule.

14 Aug 2023

UPDATE: Malaysia’s PrefChem switched to PP yarn grade, stabilizes PE operation

The 450,000 tons/year line was previously shut in July due to unspecified production issue.

10 Aug 2023

USA Olin resumes VCM unit production

Olin is contractually obliged to provide 50% of its VCM to Shintech’s 1.45 million tons/year PVC plant in Freeport

08 Aug 2023

China: Three new PE plants are scheduled to start up in 2023

CommoPlast reported earlier, China produced a total of 6.2 million tons of HDPE alone in the first six months of 2023 and increasingly meeting local demand

07 Aug 2023

China added another 2.6 million tons of PP in 1H2023.

According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, China produced 15.5 million tons of PP in the period from January – June 2023, indicating a growth rate of 4.3% from the same period last year

31 Jul 2023

Vietnam’s Hyosung restarted after power outages

According to market sources, Hyosung Vina Chemical has resumed operating after a blackout forced the producer to shut the entire petrochemical complex in Southern Vietnam on 14 July 2023.

31 Jul 2023

South Korea’s SK Advanced restarted the PDH plant; downstream PP unit to come online

The unit was taken offline on 7 June 203 for routine maintenance, which was scheduled to last about two weeks.

28 Jul 2023

UPDATE: Malaysia’s PrefChem to restart cracker and PP plants

Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PRefChem) is planning to restart its steam cracker in the Southern state of Johor, Malaysia in the coming week following a brief unscheduled shutdown.

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