Toray Plastics Malaysia starts turnaround of two ABS lines
09 November 2010 03:41 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Toray Plastics Malaysia (TPM), the largest producer of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) in southeast Asia, shut two out of its six lines for planned maintenance on Tuesday, a company source said.
The two lines of 55,000 tonnes/year each would remain shut for around three to four weeks, the source added.
The company operates six ABS lines at its Penang complex with a total output of 330,000 tonnes/year of which 70,000 tonnes are transparent ABS resins.
TPM also operates a 60,000 tonne/year polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) unit in Kuantan, eastern peninsular
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