S Korea’s Honam sets March turnaround for Yeosu PP, HDPE units
19 January 2012 03:43 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--
The shutdown of the 400,000 tonne/year PP plant and 370,000 tonne/year HDPE unit would be in line with a scheduled maintenance at an upstream cracker at the site, the source said.
Honam Petrochemical has a 750,000 tonne/year cracker in Yeosu that will be shut for debottlenecking from 1 March to 10 April.
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