S Korea’s Kumho P&B Chemicals to shut Yeosu BPA plant in May

01 February 2010 07:38  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--South Korea’s Kumho P&B Chemicals plans to shut its No 2 and No 3 bisphenol A (BPA) lines at Yeosu in early May for annual maintenance, a company source said on Monday.

The two lines would be down for three weeks from 7 May, in conjunction with the shutdown at their upstream phenol-acetone facility, the source said.

The No 2 line has a BPA nameplate capacity of 130,000 tonnes/year, while the No 3 line can produce 150,000 tonnes/year of BPA.

Kumo P&B's 30,000 tonne/year No 1 line at the same site was mothballed in early 2007.

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By: Liu Xin
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