MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiyo Petrochemical is in plans to shut its styrene monomer (SM) plant for maintenance next year, reported Apic-online.
The company has planned a maintenance turnaround at the plant in September 2014. The shutdown is expected to remain in force for around 30 days. The plant is currently operating at full production capacity levels.
Located at Ube in Japan, the SM plant has a production capacity of 370,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, another Japanese petrochemical producer - Taiyo Vinyl Corp., a subsidiary of Tosoh Group, is in plans to shut its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant located at Osaka in Japan for maintenance. The PVC plant has a production capacity of 170,000 mt/year and is likely to be shut for a maintenance turnaround in July 2014 for a period of about one month.
Taiyo Vinyl Corporation, a subsidiary of Tosoh Group, is one of Japan's largest manufacturers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The plant in Chiba is one of the company's key assests, which supplies 50% of its products to the domestic market. The company also produces PVC at the plants in Yokkaichi and Osaka with the annual capacity of 310,000 and 150,000 tonnes, respectively.
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