NPRA '09: SABIC's Wilton, UK, cracker to restart within 2 weeks

30 March 2009 17:50  [Source: ICIS news]

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ICIS news)--SABIC Europe's cracker based at Wilton in the UK will be up and running within two weeks, a company source said on Monday.

“The start-up process has begun, but we’ve not started up yet … not before the end of next week”, the source said, in response to suggestions on the sidelines of the National Petroleum & Refiners Association (NPRA) meeting that the cracker had already been restarted.

The 865,000 tonne/year ethylene cracker, the third largest in Europe, was shut down in February for a combination of technical and market reasons.

No restart date was disclosed in the shutdown announcement, but market sources had speculated that the cracker would be restarted to accommodate the April start-up of SABIC’s new 400,000 tonne/year low density polyethylene (LDPE) unit at the site.

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By: Nel Weddle
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