IIR Top Chemical Processing News Today: May 7th 2020

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North America
Exxon Chemical Olefins Incorporated has scheduled a planned maintenance turnaround at its 1.8 billion-pound-per-year Fife Exxon Chemicals plant in the U.K. The 45-day turnaround is expected to kick off in early April 2021.

Dow Chemical is preparing to idle Train C in the 932 million-pound-per-year Poly 3 unit at its Freeport, Texas, plant, at the end of May for 30 days. The train will be taken offline due to market conditions.

Braskem America is on schedule to perform a 2-week turnaround at its 450 million-pound-per-year polypropylene unit in Seadrift, Texas. The turnaround is scheduled to begin in October 2020.

International
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation began a 60-day planned turnaround of the 1.06 billion-pound-per-year ethylene (K2E) unit and 617.29 million-pound-per-year propylene unit, on May 6, at its Kamisu Ibaraki Chemical Complex in Japan. Expectations are to complete repairs and restart the units by July 4.

Japan Polypropylene Corporation remains on schedule to perform a 35-day planned turnaround of the 661.38 million-pound-per-year No.3 polypropylene resins (PP) and 330.69 million-pound-per-year No. 2 PP unit, on June 2, at its Kamisu Kashima Polypropylene Plant in Japan. Expectations are to complete repairs and restart the units by July 6.

Braskem has postponed its 20-day maintenance turnaround of the 380 million-pound-per-year polypropylene unit at its Paulinia Plant in Brazil. Maintenance work was scheduled to take place in April, but it has been moved to July due to the impact of COVID-19.

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