China’s Daqing Petchem to turn around cracker
22 July 2008 06:35 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--PetroChina subsidiary Daqing Petrochemical will shut down one of the two lines at its 600,000 tonne/year ethylene cracker on 18 August for a month-long scheduled maintenance, a company source said on Tuesday.
"We will shut down the 300,000 tonne/year line of the cracker from 18 August to 17 September for a month-long maintenance," the official said in Mandarin, declining to comment on which other downstream plants would be shut down in line with the cracker turnaround.
The shutdown at the cracker in Daqing, Heilongjiang province was not expected to have any impact on the market due to ample supply, other producers and traders in northeast Asia said.
Daqing also operates a 190,000 tonne/year benzene, 120,000 tonne/year toluene and 105,000 tonne/year xylene (BTX) unit, an 85,000 tonne/year linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), two low density PE plants with a total capacity of 265,000 tonnes/year, a 240,000 tonne/year high density polyethylene (HDPE) and a 100,000 tonne/year polypropylene (PP) plant at the same site.
Judith Wang contributed to this article
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