South Korea based HAnwha Chemicals is to shut its aromatic unit no1 for maintenance turnaround. The shut down is likely to last for around 45 days. Hanwha Total runs two aromatics units in Daesan, within South Korea’s Chungnam Province.The company’s No. 1 aromatics unit has a nameplate capacity of 360,000 mt/year of benzene and 700,000 mt/year of paraxylene (PX). Its No. 2 aromatics unit is able to produce 420,000 mt/year of benzene and 1 million mt/year of PX
