China's BASF-YPC to restart aromatics unit in early May
20 April 2012 09:00 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--China’s BASF-YPC (BYC) plans to restart its aromatics plant at Nanjing in east China’s Jiangsu province in early May, a company source said on Friday.
The plant can produce 150,000 tonnes/year of benzene, 100,000 tonnes/year of toluene and 80,000 tonnes/year of xylenes.
BYC shut the plant on 16 April because of an outage at its upstream ethylene cracker.
Its derivative 80,000 tonne/year styrene monomer (SM) plant has continued operating at 100%, said the source.
BYC is a joint venture between German chemical major BASF and
Author: Vivian Liu
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