MOSCOW (MRC) -- Samyang Innochem is in plans to restart its bisphenol A (BPA) plant following maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in South Korea informed that the plant is likely to be restarted in end-June 2015.It was shut on May 24, 2015.
Located in Gunsan, South Korea, the plant has a production capacity of 150,000 mt/year.
As reported earlier, South Korean petrochemical company LG Chem restarted its BPA plant in South Korea after maintenance turnaround in late November 2014. It was shut on October 26, 2014. Located in Yeosu, South Korea, the plant has a production capacity of 150,000 mt/year.
Besides, as MRC wrote previously, in early 2015, Badger Licensing, a 50-50 joint venture between ExxonMobil and Technip, was selected by Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical to provide its proprietary technology for a 120,000 tpy grassroots bisphenol-A (BPA) plant being built in Lijin, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China. The new BPA plant is under construction and is scheduled for mechanical completion and start up in 2015. Lihuayi operates a cumene plant using Badger technology at the same site.
BPA is a type of engineering plastic for use in automobiles, mobile phones, and electronics appliances.
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