RELEASED ON 07/02/13 (DD/MM/YY)

Yeochun Naphtha Cracking Center (YNCC) is likely to shut operations at its butadiene extraction unit.

Located at Yeosu in South Korea, the unit has a production capacity of 240,000 mt/year.

The unit will be taken off-stream for a maintenance turnaround in May 2013 and will remain shut for around one month, according to a Polymerupdate source in South Korea.

SOURCE Polymer Update