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According to market sources, Thailand’s SCG Chemicals is forced to lower the operating rate at its HDPE unit since last week due to some technical issues taking place at the ethylene pipeline, causing feedstock disruption.

A source close to the company informed that it is working on the issues and might be able to resume production by first week of July. Bases in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, SCG own four HDPE lines with combined capacity of 980,000 tons/year.

The sources, “We have reduced HDPE allocation for export market at the moment and this condition might persist throughout July. We initially planned to source ethylene from spot market, however due to the pipeline issues, we can’t feed into the plant.”