Mitsui Chemical is planning to shut its naphtha fed cracker for maintenance turnaround. The unit is likely to go off-stream in the second week of June. The unit is expected to remain under maintenance for around 45 days and may resume production in the last week of July 2018.
Unit is based at Sakai in Japan and has the manufacturing capacity of Propylene around 2,80,000vmt/year and Ethylene around 5,00,000 mt/year.