MOSCOW (MRC) -- Thailand’s Rayong Olefins has been running its aromatics units at 100% operating rates since it has restarted its cracker last week, a company source told TPS.
Rayong Olefins operates two aromatics units in Map Ta Phut, within Rayong Province where the country’s largest industrial park is located.
The company is able to produce about 360,000 mt/year of benzene and 156,000 mt of toluene from its Map Ta Phut-based aromatics units.
According to the source, the company does not have any plan for turnarounds in 2016. It is likely to have a scheduled turnaround for its aromatics units during Q1 2017.
As MRC informed previously, Rayong Olefins plans to shut its naphtha cracker at Map Ta Phut in December for two weeks. The cracker which is able to produce 400,000 mt/year of propylene and 800,000 mt/year of ethylene. It supplies feed stock to Thai Polyethylene which has the production capacity of 980,000 mt/year of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), 100,000 mt/year of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and 110,000 mt/year of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE).
Rayong Olefins is a subsidiary of SCG Chemicals, one of the largest integrated petrochemical producers in Thailand which manufactures and supplies a full range of upstream and downstream petrochemical products, such as, ethylene, propylene, mixed C-4, benzene, and tulene which are supplied to downstream manufacturers of polyethylene and polypropylene.
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