MOSCOW (MRC) -- Japanese Idemitsu Kosan Co has delayed the restart of a styrene monomer (SM) plant, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the plant is likely to be restarted on May 14, 2015. It was earlier scheduled for an early-May restart.
The plant was taken off-stream on April 6, 2015 for a maintenance turnaround.
Located in Chiba, Japan, the plant has a production capacity of 210,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, Idemitsu Kosan also shut its refinery in Japan for maintenance turnaround in April 2015. It is likely to remain off-stream for around one month. Located at Chiba in Japan, the refinery has a crude processing capacity of 220,000 bpd.
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese petroleum company. It owns and operates oil platforms, refineries and produces and sells petroleum, oils and petrochemical products. The company runs two petrochemical plants in Chiba and Tokuyama. The two naphtha crackers can produce up to 997,000 tonnes of ethylene per year.
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