Mitsubishi Chemical is planning to shut its naphtha cracker for maintenance turnaround. The unit is expected to go off-stream in the last week of May and will resume production after 8-9 weeks.
The cracker is based at Kashima in Japan and has the manufacturing capacity of Propylene around 5, 60,000 mt/year and Ethylene around 5, 40,000 mt/year.
