MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical has shut a high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the plant was shut on March 26, 2014 owing to feedstock issues. A restart date for the plant could not be ascertained.
Located in Shanghai, China, the plant has a production capacity of 250,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed earlier, Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical restarted its acrylonitrile (ACN) plant on December 25, 2013. It was shut on November 20, 2013 for maintenance turnaround. Located in Shanghai, China , the plant has a production capacity of 130,000 mt/year.
Besides, top Asian refiner Sinopec Corp won initial approval in October 2013 from China's top economic planner for a plan to build a USD10-billion refinery and petrochemical complex in Shanghai. Sinopec had started formal planning for the 400,000 barrels-per-day refinery and a 1 million tonnes-per-year ethylene project in a plan to curb pollution by shifting an old plant to Shanghai's southern edge.
Sinopec Corp. is one of the largest scale integrated energy and chemical companies with upstream, midstream and downstream operations. Its refining and ethylene capacity ranks No.2 and No.4 globally. The Company has 30,000 sales and distribution networks of oil products and chemical products, its service stations are now ranked third largest in the world.
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