MOSCOW (MRC) -- CPC Corp has planned to take its No 7 aromatics plant off-stream for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the plant was likely to be shut on February 13, 2017. It is likely to remain off-stream for around 25-30 days.
Located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the plant has a benzene capacity of around 205,000 mt/year and toluene capacity of 100,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, CPC Corporation shut its No. 6 aromatics plant in Taiwan for a maintenance turnaround 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.
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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