RELEASED ON 06/02/13 (DD/MM/YY)

LG Chem is likely to shut operations at its styrene monomer (SM) plant.

Located at Yeosu in South Korea, the SM plant has a production capacity of 500,000 mt/year.

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

SOURCE Polymer Update