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NOVA Chemicals was forced to shut down the 1.8 billion-pound-per-year Olefins (Hot/Cold) Ethylene unit at its Corunna, Ontario, plant, due to emergency repairs. Due to this outage, NOVA Chemicals has declared force majeure on polyethylene (PE) resins produced in the Ontario area. A restart attempt is expected late next week.