China’s Daqing Petrochemical shuts LDPE plant on technical glitch

01 August 2011 11:30  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS)--China’s Daqing Petrochemcial shut its 65,000 tonne/year low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant at Heilongjiang province on Monday because of a technical glitch, a company source said.

The source did not know when the plant will be restarted.

The plant produces mainly film grade LDPE and occasionally makes foam and heavy-duty LDPE film grades, the source said.

The plant outage is not expected to have any impact on the domestic LDPE market because of its small capacity, local distributors said.

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By: Angie Li
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