Lotte Chemical Corp., Seoul, is planning to elevate its ethylene production capacity by 200,000 tonnes/year. It is placed at Yeosu, South Korea territory of Jeollanam-do. Increased ethylene output would result from conversion of the plant’s current 1 million-tpy naphtha cracker to run on a feedstock of propane gas.
Furthermore expanding ethylene production to 1.2 mllion tpy, the project also would augment the complex’s 520,000-tpy output of propylene to 620,000 tpy, Lotte said.
