MOSCOW (MRC) -- The 1.3 million mt/year Celanese/Mitsui methanol plant in Clear Lake, Texas, has begun a 10 day restart, according to Plastemart.
The restart process began Saturday and should last until November 29, the companies said in a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
The unit shut November 12 to allow for repairs to a secondary reformer. This joint-venture facility is the largest methanol production plant in the US.
As MRC wrote before, in October 2015, Mitsui & Co. announced that Fairway Methanol LLC, a 50-50 joint venture between Mitsui and US-based chemicals company Celanese, had commenced production of methanol at its planned annual production capacity of 1.3 million tons. Mitsui says it is utilizing its shale gas business in the US as the starting point for expanding the scope of its downstream activities in the gas value chain, including chemicals and infrastructure.
Mitsui Chemicals,a Japanese chemical company, is a part of the Mitsui conglomerate. The company has a turnover of around 15 billion USD and has business interests in Japan, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the USA. The company mainly deals in performance materials, petro and basic chemicals and functional polymeric materials.
Celanese Corporation is a global technology leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. Based in Dallas, Texas, Celanese employs approximately 7,500 employees worldwide and had 2014 net sales of USD6.8 billion.
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