Published on May 23, 2018
South Korean company Hanwha Chemical will shut down its Purified Terephthalic Acid unit for maintenance. This shut down has been due to technical problem detected last week. The unit is likely to remain off-stream for around few weeks. The company sources have not specified any details about the restart of unit.
Unit is based at Daesan and has the manufacturing capacity of 7,00,000 mt/year.