Japan’s Idemitsu restarts Tokuyama cracker

30 October 2008 02:41  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Japanese cracker operator Idemitsu Kosan  restarted its 623,000 tonne/year ethylene plant in Tokuyama on schedule yesterday after a planned 45-day maintenance shutdown, a source from the company said on Thursday.

 

“The cracker is now running at 100%,” he said.

 

He added that the company planned to run the Tokuyama facility and its other 374,000 tonne/year naphtha cracker in Chiba, Ichihara prefecture, at close to full rates next month despite an ongoing turnaround at its refinery.

  

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