MOSCOW (MRC) -- Idemitsu SM Malaysia has restarted its styrene monomer (SM) plant, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Malaysia informed that the plant restarted in end-June 2015. It was shut on June 1, 2015 for maintenance turnaround.
Located at Pasir Gudang in Malaysia, the plant has a production capacity of 240,000 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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