TPC to start new PP plant 3rd week of September

08 September 2006 10:54  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--The Polyolefin Company (TPC), a Singapore-based polymers producer, is due to start up its newly converted polypropylene (PP) plant in the third week of September, a source close to the company said on Friday.

The converted plant on Jurong Island will have a 200,000 tonnes/year capacity. It previously had a 150,000 tonnes/year capacity to produce linear low-density polyethylene.

Supply from the converted plant should help to ease the regional tight supply in October, traders said.

Regional PP supply was expected to be tight in September through October due to plant turnarounds and lower production caused by feedstock propylene shortage in Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and China.

The producer’s existing 200,000 tonnes/year PP plant was restarted on 29 August after shutting on 24 July for a turnaround.

By: Chow Bee Lin
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