JG Summit Petrochemical Corp will soon to restart its naphtha cracker in H1 January 2020, following a scheduled maintenance. The cracker was shut on October 6, 2019 and was estimated to complete a turnaround and expansion process in early-December 2019.
In the expansion the ethylene capacity will be increased by 160,000 MT and propylene capacity will be increased by 50,000 MT. It is based in Batangas City, Philippines, the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 320,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 190,000 mt/year.