Laleh begins trial Bandar Imam LPDE production
30 January 2008 09:25 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Laleh Petrochemical has begun trial production at its 300,000 tonne/year low-density polyethylene (LDPE) project at Bandar Imam, Iran, a source close to the company said on Wednesday.
“The plant is expected to begin commercial production by end-February,” the source added.
The start-up of the LDPE plant had been delayed several times due to technical problems.
Ethylene feedstock for the plant would come from Marun Petrochemical’s 1.1m tonne/year cracker.
The Marun cracker, as well as Amir Kabir Petrochemical’s 520,000 tonne/year cracker, both located at Bandar Imam in Khouzestan province, restarted last week following month-long outages, the source said.
“The technical problems at the central utilities units at Bandar Imam, which caused the two outages, have been mostly resolved, but the crackers and their derivative units have yet to achieve full output,” the source added.
The Laleh start-up would slightly ease the current tightness in LDPE markets across all regions, traders said.
Laleh is a joint venture of Iran’s National Petrochemical Co, Saudi Basic Industries Corp Europe (SABIC) and Iran's Poushineh Industrial Group.
Marun and Amir Kabir are subsidiaries of NPC.
By: Prema Viswanathan
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