Borealis resumes output at Porvoo cracker

07 June 2007 18:14  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Borealis was in the process of resuming production at its Porvoo, Finland, cracker on schedule on Thursday, a company source reported.

 

Borealis began a planned debottlenecking outage on 15 April which increased cracker production capacity by 50,000-60,000 tonnes/year to 380,000-390,000 tonnes/year.

 

Full output was expected in the coming days, the source added.

 

The company produces polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) at the Porvoo site.

 

By: Linda Naylor
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