MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Zhongyuan Petrochemical, part of Sinopec Group, is in plans to bring on-stream its cracker following a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that, the company is likely to resume operations at the cracker by mid-September, 2020. The cracker was shut for maintenance on August 1, 2020.
Located at Henan in China, the cracker has a ethylene capacity of 220,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 95,000 mt/year.
Zhongyuan Petrochemical also has polyethylene (PE) production capacity of 260,000 tonnes per year and polypropylene (PP) capacity of 160,000 tonnes per year at the same site. Besides, the company also plans to carry out maintenance on its 600,000-tonnes-per-year methanol to olefins (MTO) unit during the period of July 24 to Oct. 22.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE imports to Russia dropped in January-June 2020 by 7% year on year to 328,000 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the main decrease in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia rose in the first six months of 2020 by 21% year on year to 105,300 tonnes. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.
China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) is a super-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group established in July 1998 on the basis of the former China Petrochemical Corporation. Sinopec Group"s key business activities include the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, petrochemicals and other chemical products, oil refining.
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