Mitsubishi restarts Mizushima cracker

04 June 2008 11:33  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical has restarted its Mizushima cracker and the facility is set to resume on-spec ethylene by early Thursday morning after maintenance, a source from the company said on Wednesday.

  

“We have restarted the cracker but it is still in the early stages of the restart,” the source added.

 

The 450,000 tonne/year cracker was shut on 15 May for a maintenance turnaround.

 

Mitsubishi’s 375,000 tonne/year Kashima No 1 cracker is also undergoing a maintenance turnaround and will be restarted on 1 July.

 

Mitsubishi operates three crackers with a combined capacity of about 1.3m tonne/year.

By: Brian Myung
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