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Emergency shutdown at Malaysia's Petlin LDPE plant

Emergency shutdown at Malaysia's Petlin LDPE plant



According to market sources, PETLIN (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of PETRONAS has unexpectedly shut its LDPE plant since 13 August 2017 due to technical glitches.

Located at Kerteh, Malaysia, the LDPE unit has a production capacity of 255,000 ton/year. The unit is expected to remain offline for about 9-10 days.