Basell 250 kt Wesseling hdPE unit back in full operation

09 July 2001 18:28  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (CNI)--European polyolefins producer Basell confirmed on Monday that its 250 000 tonne/year capacity high density polyethylene (hdPE) unit at Wesseling, Germany is back in full operation following a four day outage last week.

A spokesman for the company told CNI that the unit was closed on Tuesday (3 July) due to technical problems and was brought back online late on Friday (6 July).

Basell's 100 000 tonne/year hdPE unit at Wesseling was also reported to have been taken offline last Thursday. The spokesman said that while there may have been a minor stoppage for product testing, as far as he was aware the unit was back in operation.

By: Neil Sinclair
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