China’s Jingmen Petchem to restart Hubei PP plant on 20 March

GUANGZHOU (ICIS)--China’s Jingmen Petrochemical is planning to restart its 70,000 tonne/year polypropylene (PP) plant at Jingmen, Hubei province, on 20 March after it was shut for maintenance, a source at the Sinopec subsidiary said on Thursday.

The plant, together with its upstream 800,000 tonne/year fluid catalytic cracker (FCC), was shut on 24 February for a scheduled turnaround, the source said.

Meanwhile, the producer’s smaller 30,000 tonne/year PP unit and upstream 400,000 tonne/year FCC were running “normally”, according to the source.

On a separate note, the source told ICIS that the 70,000 tonne/year PP unit was capable of producing up to 120,000 tonnes/year of output.