Mitsui Chemicals to restart naphtha cracker as scheduled

22-Jul-16

Mitsui Chemicals Inc's wholly-owned unit, Osaka Petrochemical Industries Ltd, is to restart commercial operations of its 500,000 tpa naphtha cracker at its Osaka plant in western Japan on Thursday, as scheduled, as per Reuters. The cracker had been shut since June 22. The scheduled shutdown was not part of any government-mandated planned maintenance but for cleaning and other production adjustment purposes to coincide with maintenance of some other related units.