Unipetrol brings forward Litvinov cracker turnaround to end of Sept

21 September 2010 16:25  [Source: ICIS news]

PRAGUE (ICIS)--Unipetrol has brought forward a planned shutdown of its Litvinov ethylene steam cracker by three weeks to the end of September, the Czech petrochemical producer said on Tuesday.

The two-week shutdown, during which engineers would look to increase the efficiency of the cracker, would take place sooner due to technical reasons, it added.

"The work will affect a limited number of customers only. Unipetrol has undertaken measures to reduce the work's influence on the availability of its products,“ said the company, a subsidiary of Poland's PKN Orlen.

The Litvinov cracker's capacity stands at 480,000 tonnes/year.

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