Today's Chemical Processing Hotline Headlines

North America
ExxonMobil Chemical continues a turnaround of its 2,600 million-pound-per-year BOP ethylene unit in Baytown, Texas. The unit was shut down in mid-January and is currently expected to restart later in March.

International
LG Chemical Limited's 595 million-pound-per-year Train 2 within the 2,800-million-pound-per-year ethylene unit at its Seosan Daesan Chemicals plant in South Korea, remains offline. The restart is delayed to March 30, 2023. The unit was shut down due to market conditions on December 12, 2022.

Borealis Plastomers is performing a planned maintenance turnaround of the 264 million-pound-per-year Chemelot-Green Plastomers plant in the Netherlands. The plant shut down in early February, and the maintenance is expected to take two months to complete.

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