Planned plant turnarounds in Asia

The No.1 cracking unit of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corporation (FPC) is slated for 6-7 week planned turnaround in mid September. Downstream LLDPE and HDPE plants will also be shut correspondingly. Taiwan's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) plans a 40-day maintenance shutdown at its No.5 cracking unit, in first week of August. The set of cracker has an ethylene capacity of 550 kt/yr. S. Korea's Yeochon Naphtha Cracking Centre (YNCC) plans to overhaul its 500,000 tpa ethylene No.1 cracking unit for two months or so in November this year. To comply with the turnaround, operation rates at the related downstream plants will be slightly lowered. Thai Petrochemical Industry (TPI) plans to shut down its upstream cracking unit October for approximately 40 days. The auxiliary downstream plants are also estimated to be closed. PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical Company's PP plant is running at low rates due to supply shortage of upstream feedstock and Langang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. kept its PP plant shut and is unclear about the restart date.