Today's Chemical Processing Hotline Headlines

North America
INEOS continues to plan and schedule an approximately 45-to-60-day turnaround of the 1.7 billion-pound-per-year Olefins 1 ethylene unit at its Chocolate Bayou Olefins Plant in Alvin, Texas. A tentative start date is set for April, and Industrial Info continues to monitor the event for a better understanding of the turnaround start date.

Nova Chemicals is on schedule to perform planned maintenance on its 950 million-pound-per-year polyethylene II unit in Joffre, Alberta. Expectations are to begin taking the unit offline in June and restart the unit in July.

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