MOSCOW (MRC) -- Lotte Titan is in plans to shut its linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Indonesia informed that the plant is likely to be shut towards end-June 2015. The duration of the shutdown could not be ascertained.
Located in Merak, Indonesia, the plant has a production capacity of 450,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, in December 2014, KBR, Inc. received a licensing and engineering design services contract from Malaysia-based olefins and polyolefins provider, Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Sdn. Bhd. The scope of the contract requires KBR to extend its catalytic olefins technology to enhance the olefins production for Lotte Chemical Titan. The company’s catalytic olefins technology efficiently converts low-value olefinic, paraffinic or mixed streams to propylene and ethylene, which hold higher value in the market.
The Lotte Group currently has a presence in Indonesia via its subsidiary, Honam Petrochemicals, which acquired Malaysia’s polyolefin major Titan Chemicals in July 2010. Included in the acquisition was Titan’s Indonesian subsidiary - PT Titan Petrokimia Nusantara (TPN), which has a polyethylene (PE) production capacity of 450,000 tonnes/year
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