MOSCOW (MRC) -- Grand Pacific Petrochemical Company (GPPC) has restarted its acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS)/styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) plant, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the plant was brought on stream over the weekend. It was shut on July 10, 2015 owing to a fire and consequent explosion.
Located at Ta She in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the plant has a production capacity of 120,000 mt/year.
We remind that, as MRC wrote before, GPPC is likely to shut a styrene monomer (SM) plant for maintenance turnaround in September 2015. It is likely to remain off-stream for around one month. Located in Tashe, Taiwan, the plant has a capacity of 240,000 mt/year.
GPPC has continuously pursued expansion and diversification since its founding in 1973. Starting with styrene monomer (SM), GPPC and its subsidiaries have gradually broadened the product line to include SM, ABS, SAN, PS, and H2. Currently, GPPC has two SM plants with a total annual capacity of 330,000 metric tons, an ABS/SAN plant producing 120,000 metric tons per annum and a hydrogen plant with a capacity of 600 cubic meters per hour. In addition, two GPPC's subsidiaries, GPPC chemical and BC chemical, are engaged in the polystyrene (PS) production with a combined annual capacity of 100,000 metric tons. Anticipating the regional fast growth, GPPC invested in Grand Pacific Chemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and founded Zhenjiang GPPC Chemical Co., Ltd.(China) for the ABS production in 1991 and 1996, respectively.
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