NewsFlashLotte Daesan to start MEG test runs

08 May 2008 03:46  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Korea’s Lotte Daesan Petrochemical Corp will start test runs at its 390,000 tonne/year monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant soon, a company source said on Thursday.

The source added that the company was hoping that the facility in Daesan, western Korea, would commence full operations by this month or June.

Lotte Daesan’s new MEG plant is the first in the world to utilise Shell’s Only MEG Advantage (OMEGA) technology which was developed to eliminate the production of by-products diethyelene glycol (DEG) and triethylene glycol (TEG).

Asia’s petrochemical industry has been awaiting the outcome of the OMEGA technology in actual manufacturing with bated breath, said a southeast Asian trader.

Lotte Daesan currently operates a 250,000 tonne/yr MEG facility in the same location in Daesan.

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By: Hong Chou Hui
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