MOSCOW (MRC) -- Dongguan Grand Resource Science and Technology Co Ltd (JuZhengYuan) is likely to restart its polypropylene (PP) plant following a turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has planned to resume operations at the plant on January 16, 2020. The plant was shut for maintenance on January 6, 2019.
Located in Guangdong, China, the PP plant comprising two units have a production capacity of 300,000 mt/year each.
As MRC wrote before, the company's 600,000 tons/year PDH unit has been shut since the first week of January due to negative margin.
Propylene is the main feedstock for the production of polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, the PP consumption in the Russian market was 1,161,830 tonnes in January-November 2019, up by 7% year on year. Deliveries of all grades of propylene polymers increased, with the homopolymer PP segment accounting for the largest increase.
Dongguan Grand Resource Science and Technology Co Ltd is owned by Juzhengyuan Energy (Shenzhen, Guangdong, China). On 26 October 2019, Dongguan Grand Resource’s (Dongguan, Guangdong, China) integrated complex for polypropylene production in Dongguan officially started up.
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