Indonesia’s Asahimas to shutdown PVC and VCM plants for maintenance

21 Feb 2019 The shutdown would not affect the supply condition as the company has planned inventories in advance.

18 Feb 2019 Benzene Butadiene Ethylene Propylene HD Film LL C4 Film PPH Raf

India’s OPAL to startup new PP plant in 1-2 weeks time

Market sources reported that India’s ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPAL), a joint venture of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (26%), GAIL (17%) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (5%), is planning to startup its new PP plant in ...

13 Feb 2019

UPDATE: South Korea’s Lotte to shut HDPE line following power outage

Lotte Chemical was forced to declare emergency shutdown following a power outage

13 Feb 2019 Ethylene Propylene

Japan’s Keiyo to shut crackers for maintenance

The cracker is expected to remain shut for ten to fifteen days for equipment maintenance.

12 Feb 2019 Naphtha Ethylene Propylene

Lotte Chemical keeps Yeosu cracker offline following emergency shutdown

It is unclear on how long the company might take to bring the operation online.

12 Feb 2019 Propylene

Zhejiang Satellite successfully started up PDH unit, downstream PP plant to come online soon

Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical successful startup the new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit and on-spec propylene cargoes from the plant are available.