MOSCOW (MRC) -- PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC) is likely to take its No.1 cracker off-stream for a maintenance turnaround, as per CommoPlast.
This cracker is expected to be taken off-line in late January 2020. The planned maintenance is likely to remain in force for around 40 days.
Located at Map Ta Phut in Thailand, the cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 515,000 mt/year and a propylene production capacity of 310,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote earlier, in 2018, PTTGC conducted a 40-day turnaround at its No. 1 cracker in Map Ta Phut from early September.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,724,670 tonnes in the first ten months of 2019, up by 7% year on year. Shipments of all PE grades increased. The estimated PP consumption in the Russian market in January-October 2019 totalled 1,066,520 tonnes, up by 7% year on year. Supply of block copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymer) and homopolymer of propylene (homopolymer PP) increased, demand for statistical copolymers (PP random copolymer) decreased.
PTT Global Chemical is a leading player in the petrochemical industry and owns several petrochemical facilities with a combined capacity of 8.45 million tonnes a year.
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