MOSCOW (MRC) -- BASF, the world's petrochemical major, is in plans to shut its No 1 naphtha cracker for maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Germany informed that the plant is likely to be shut on September 11, 2014. It is planned to remain off-stream for around one month.
Located at Ludwigshafen in Germany, the cracker has a capacity of 220,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, on 1 September 2014, BASF reported flaring at the largest of its two ethylene crackers
at Ludwigshafen site, Germany. The production at the cracker was not stopped. The flaring was caused by technical issues during the preparation for a two-week turnaround scheduled for September.
BASF is the leading chemical company. It produces a wide range of chemicals, for example solvents, amines, resins, glues, electronic-grade chemicals, industrial gases, basic petrochemicals and inorganic chemicals. The most important customers for this segment are the pharmaceutical, construction, textile and automotive industries. BASF had sales of about EUR74 billion in 2013 and over 112,000 employees as of the end of the year. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (AN).
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