MOSCOW (MRC) -- Japan’s Asahi Kasei Chemicals has shut its cracker permanently on Feb 12, a company source told TPS.
The cracker in Mizushima has an ethylene capacity of 504,000 mt/year and a propylene capacity of 300,000 mt/year.
Feedstock ethylene for its 390,000 mt/year of styrene monomer (SM) plant will come from a new 750,000 mt/year steamcracker which is a joint venture between Asahi Kasei and Mitsubishi Chemical.
The new unified cracker is expected to start up on April 1.
We remind that, as MRC reported before, Asahi Kasei is likely to shut its second SM plant for a maintenance turnaround in March 2016. It is slated to remain off-stream for around 2 weeks. Located in Mizushima, Japan, the cracker has a production capacity of 390,000 mt/year.
Asahi Kasei Corporation is a global Japanese chemical company. Its main products are chemicals and materials science.
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