Dow Terneuzen No 2 to reach full rates on weekend

18 January 2008 16:24  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Dow Chemical’s Terneuzen 2 cracker in the Netherlands should reach full rates over the weekend after an outage halted production on 9 January, said a company source on Friday.

Dow restarted the cracker - one of three at the Terneuzen site - over the weekend of 12/13 January.

Two furnaces still needed repair work, however, so rates were only gradually lifted.

The No 2 cracker, with capacity of 575,000 tonnes/year, will go down for planned maintenance between 20 March and 26 April.

Market sources said the outage had offered a little relief to the ethylene and propylene markets, given that both were long across much of Europe.

By: Edward Cox
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