MOSCOW (MRC) -- BASF-YPC, a JV of BASF, the world's leading chemical company, has shut a naphtha cracker for maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the cracker was shut on April 1, 2015. It is likely to remain off-stream till May 18, 2015.
Located in Nanjing, China, the cracker has a production capacity of 740,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, BASF-YPC also took off-stream its low density polyethylene/ethylene vinyl acetate (LDPE/EVA) plant for maintenance turnaround. The plant was shut on April 1, 2015. The duration of the turnaround could not be ascertained. Located at Nanjing in Jiangsu province of China, it has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
BASF is the largest diversified chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF 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.
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