MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS) restarted its butadiene unit on March 17 after being shut for three weeks, a company source confirmed to TPS.
Both crackers are located on Pulau Ayer Merbau, on Singapore's Jurong Island.
The unit at its No. 2 cracker is able to produce 140,000 mt/year of butadiene. The No. 2 cracker has a capacity of 655,000 mt/year of ethylene and 350,000 mt/year of propylene.
The No. 1 cracker has a capacity of 474,000 mt/year of ethylene and 270,000 mt/year of propylene.
We remind that, as MRC informed previously, in September 2015, another large producer of petrochemical production in Asia - Ube Industries Ltd. - launched Lotte Ube Synthetic Rubber Sdn. Bhd., a joint venture of Lotte Chemical Corp. (40%), Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Sdn. Bhd. (10%), Ube Industries, Ltd. (40%), and Mitsubishi Corporation (10%), for the manufacturing of butadiene rubber (BR) based in the Tanjung Langsat industrial park in Johor, Malaysia.
Lotte Ube Synthetic Rubber has a BR production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year, becoming the fourth BR production facility of the UBE Group. With facilities in Japan (126,000 tonnes), Thailand (72,000 tonnes), China (72,000 tonnes) and now Mayasia, the Ube Industries Group has a combined annual BR production capacity of 320,000 tonnes.
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