MOSCOW (MRC) -- Mitsui Chemicals has announced it has resumed ethylene production following a 21 June 2018 fire at its Osaka, Japan, site, as per Apic-online.
The fire occurred in a utility plant during a scheduled maintenance, which was expected to be completed in late July, reported Reuters. The 500,000-t/y naphtha cracker was not directly affected."Other production will also be restarted in order," Mitsui noted.
The Osaka site also produces olefins, aromatics, ammonia, urea, phenol, ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, ethanolamine, unsaturated polyesters, isopropyl alcohol, melamine and others.
As MRC wrote before, in March 2016, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Hankuk Carbon Co., a company listed on the Korea Exchange, entered into a strategic alliance agreement to engage in collaborative business activities relating to the processing of composite materials.
Mitsui Chemicals is a leading manufacturer and supplier of value added specialty chemicals, plastics and materials for the automotive, healthcare, packaging, agricultural, building, and semiconductor and electronics markets. Mitsui Chemicals is a Japanese Chemicals company, 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.
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