Hanwha Total Petrochemicals will restart its cracker in next weeks. Earlier the unit was shut down for maintenance and debottlenecking. Further during this shutdown expansion in the existing capacity was other major motive. Following the expansion, the ethylene capacity will be increased by 310,000 MT and propylene capacity will be increased by 120,000 MT. Located at Daesan in South Korea, currently the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 1.09 million mt/year and propylene capacity of 640,000 mt/year.
