Eastman Texas cracker restarting from unplanned outage
10 December 2009 17:09 [Source: ICIS news]
HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Eastman Chemical is restarting its largest cracker in Longview, Texas, and hopes to return to production this weekend, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
Full production is expected a few days later, the company said.
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