MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corp is likely to shut its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant for a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the plant is likely to be taken off-stream towards the end of December 2015. It is expected to remain shut for around 1 month.
Located at Taoyuan in Taiwan, the plant has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
We remind that, as MRC informed previously, in October 2015, Lotte Chemicals, another major PET producer in Asia, plans to shut its PET plant for a maintenance turnaround. The plant is expected to remain under shutdown mode for a period of around two weeks. Located in Ulsan, South Korea, the plant has a production capacity of 450,000 mt/year.
Besides, in April 2015, Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) successfully put into operation two plants in Dahej, Gujarat, India, the first of which was a PET resin plant, which consists of two lines with a combined manufacturing capacity of 650 KTA. The plant had been built with Invista technology for continuous polymerization and Buhler AG technology for solid state polymerization. The second facility is a new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant that provides a capacity of 1,150 KTA.
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