South Korea’s KPIC to shut cracker for turnaround

11 Mar 2019 According to market sources, Korea Petrochemical Industry Co (KPIC) is planning to shut its steam cracker for scheduled maintenance by ...

06 Mar 2019 Ethylene Propylene

UPDATE: South Korea’s LG Chem started cracker expansion

By the time the project completed, the capacity would be boosted to 1.27 million tons of ethylene per annum.

04 Mar 2019 Ethylene Propylene

UPDATE: Japan’s Keiyo restarted cracker, running at full rate

The company might keep the run rate high in the coming days given the healthy margin between naphtha and ethylene.

01 Mar 2019

Malaysia’s PRefChem started up cracker, downstream units to follow

Players are expecting these cargoes to arrive the market in April and there might be some pre-marketing quantity available in late March.

21 Feb 2019 LD Film

Emergency shutdown at India’s Reliance LDPE plant

According to market sources, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has unexpectedly shut its LDPE plant by ...

21 Feb 2019 SPVC k67-68

Indonesia’s Asahimas to shutdown PVC and VCM plants for maintenance

The shutdown would not affect the supply condition as the company has planned inventories in advance.

18 Feb 2019 Benzene Butadiene Ethylene Propylene HD Film LL C4 Film PPH Raf

India’s OPAL to startup new PP plant in 1-2 weeks time

Market sources reported that India’s ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPAL), a joint venture of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (26%), GAIL (17%) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (5%), is planning to startup its new PP plant in ...

13 Feb 2019

UPDATE: South Korea’s Lotte to shut HDPE line following power outage

Lotte Chemical was forced to declare emergency shutdown following a power outage

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