MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiwan’s state-owned CPC Corporation is in plans to shut its No. 6 aromatics plant for a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the unit is likely to be taken off-stream in mid-February 2016. The exact duration of the shutdown could not be confirmed.
Located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the plant has a benzene capacity of 20,000 mt/year, isomer MX capacity of 96,000 mt/year and toluene production capacity of 96,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, at present CPC Corp. is in negotiations with an unidentified Indonesian firm regarding the purchase and relocation of CPC's Kaohsiung, Taiwan, naphtha cracker to Indonesia.
CPC Corporation, Taiwan, is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, procurement, transportation, storage, and marketing of oil and gas. The company provides fuel oil, including automotive unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel, low-sulfur fuel oil, marine distillate fuels, marine residual fuels, and aviation fuel; petrochemicals, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, para-xylene, and ortho-xylene; liquefied petroleum gas products comprising liquefied petroleum gas, propane, butane, and a propane/butane mixture; lubricants, motor oil, industrial oil, grease, and marilube oil; SNC products, including petroleum ether, naphtha, toluene, xylene, crude octene, methyl alcohol, normal paraffin, viscosity-graded asphalt cement, and sulfur; and natural gas.
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