UPDATE: Hyosung restarted PDH plant; aimed to ramp up operation in a week

06 Oct 2022 The producer reportedly targets to stabilise the production and reach 100% capacity within a week.

10 Sep 2022

A fire broke out at Vietnam's Long Son Petrochemical plant

Earlier this month, Vietnamese market participants reported that Long Son Petrochemical successfully brought online the 450,000 tons/year HDPE unit

30 Aug 2022

India’s Reliance announced expansion plans at PVC plants

On 29 August 2022, Reliance Industries announced investment plans to boost PVC production outputs in India by 1.5 million tons by 2025-2026, effectively reducing the country’s heavy dependency on imports.

25 Aug 2022

Vietnam’s Hyosung to shut PDH unit and part of PP plant in September

There have been reports that the producer might stop production at one of the PP lines as a result of the shutdown at the upstream plant, however, further details are not available at the time of this report.

25 Aug 2022

UPDATE: Vietnam’s Long Son started up the HDPE plant following a slight delay

According to market sources, Long Son Petrochemical has successfully brought online the first polyolefin unit at the newly constructed petrochemical complex in Southern Vietnam

09 Aug 2022

UPDATE: Malaysia’s PrefChem to startup HDPE and PP2 plant in August

PrefChem is a 50%-50% joint venture between Petronas and Saudi Aramco. The complex houses a naphtha cracker that produces 1.2 million tons/year of ethylene and 600,000 tons/year of propylene.

01 Aug 2022

Thailand’s IRPC to shut polyolefins plant for scheduled maintenance

In an official letter to its customers, IRPC Public Company Limited (IRPC) informed of the plan to carry out major maintenance works in the fourth quarter of the current year at its petrochemical complex in Map Ta Phut, Thailand.

27 Jul 2022

Vietnam’s Stavian signed MoU on investment to construct a new PP plant

Once completed in the fourth quarter of 2026, Stavian Quang Yen Petrochemical will become the fifth PP producer in Vietnam, bringing the total PP outputs in the country to about 2.12 million tons.

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