Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical keeps Kurosaki BPA running

15 March 2011 08:05  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical is keeping its 120,000 tonne/year bisphenol-A (BPA) plant at Kurosaki running despite an 9.0-magnitude quake that hit Japan on 11 March, a company source said on Tuesday.

The company runs another 100,000 tonne/year BPA plant at Kashima. The unit, together with an upstream phenol-acetone facility at the same site, were taken off line after the quake, the source said.

The plant can produce 250,000 tonnes/year of phenol and 150,000 tonnes/year of acetone.

Mitsubishi Chemical is mulling production rate cuts at the Kurosaki BPA unit due to a lack of feedstock phenol and acetone supply, the source added.

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By: Liu Xin
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