Today's Chemical Processing Hotline Headlines

North America
Chevron Phillips' 3,330 million-pound-per-year 1594 Ethylene unit in Cedar Bayou (Baytown), Texas, remains shut down for maintenance in a compressor that is needed due to a plant-wide power outage in late July. Current expectations are to attempt a unit restart in early October.

Eastman Chemical, on September 19, began a planned turnaround of the 300 million-pound-per-year Hydrocarbon Cracking (HCC) 3 Ethylene Unit at its Longview, Texas, plant. Expectations are to restart the unit in mid-October.

International
ExxonMobil Chemical France SARL, on September 21, shut down the 882 million-pound-per-year steam cracker (ethylene) unit due to a worker strike at its Notre-Dame de Gravenchon Chemical Complex in France. The unit is tentatively expected to restart by the end of the month.

Kazanorgsintez PJSC continues with a planned turnaround of the 822 million-pound-per-year Ethylene Unit-500 at its Kazan Chemical Complex in Russia. Expectations are to restart the unit by October 12.

Tokuyama Polypro Company Limited continues with a 52-day planned turnaround of the 440.9 million-pound-per-year Polypropylene Resins (PP) Unit at its Shunan Tokuyama Polypropylene plant in Japan. Expectations are to restart the unit by November 5.

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