MOSCOW (MRC) -- Thailand’s Rayong Olefins is operating its cracker at full capacity in January, a company source told TPS Wednesday.
The cracker, located in Map Ta Phut, restarted on Dec 15 after a minor maintenance, TPS reported earlier.
The cracker is able to produce 400,000 mt/year of propylene and 800,000 mt/year of ethylene.
It supplies feedstock to Thai Polyethylene, which has a 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).
As MRC informed previously, Thailand’s Rayong Olefins has been running its aromatics units at 100% operating rates since it has restarted its cracker on 14 December 2015. 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.
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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