MOSCOW (MRC) -- Hong Kong Petrochemical is in plans to shut a polystyrene (PS) plant, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Hong Kong informed that the plant is planned to be shut on February 10, 2014for maintenance turnaround. It is likely to remain off-stream for around 10 days.
Located in Yuen Long Industrial Estate, Hong Kong, the plant has a high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) and general purpose polystyrene (GPPS) capacity of 70,000 mt/year each.
As MRC wrote before, PS Japan Corp is in plans to shut its PS plant for maintenance. The company operates two PS lines at Chiba in Japan with production capacities of 200,000 mt/year and 45,000 mt/year, respectively. The company is likely to undertake a maintenance turnaround at the smaller plant in March 2014. The shutdown is expected to remain period of around one month.
Besides, Japanese petrochemical producer - Taiyo Vinyl Corp., a subsidiary of Tosoh Group, is in plans to shut its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant for maintenance in July 2014 for a period of about one month. Located at Osaka in Japan, the PVC plant has a production capacity of 170,000 mt/year.
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