Sabic's starts one-month benzene shutdown at Geleen
10 March 2005 18:02 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (CNI)--Sabic EuroPetrochemicals' scheduled one-month benzene shutdown has begun at its Geleen, Netherlands plant, CNI learned Thursday.
A company spokesman confirmed that the outage began as planned at midnight on Monday (7 March).
The 300,000 tonne/year benzene plant at Sabic's Geleen cracker no. 3 will be down for six weeks, and should restart in mid-April.
By: Barbara Ortner
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