DATE : 2014-04-04
China’s Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical is operating its 90,000 tonne/year vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant at Jinshan, Shanghai, at 100% capacity after restarting from a two-month outage, sources close to the company said on Monday.
The plant, which was shut on 20 January on account of firm feedstock ethylene values at that time, was restarted on 20 March, the sources said.
The outage was previously expected to last two to three months, the sources added.
The company’s other 20,000 tonne/year VAM unit at the same site has been idled since 2011 on environmental issues.
SOURCE Icis News