South Korea's Honam Petrochemical will shut its aromatics plant at Yeosu for 45-day annual turnaround from March 1 to April 15 next year, a source close to the matter said Thursday.
The plant is able to produce 180,000 mt/year of benzene, 80,000 mt/year of toluene and 50,000 mt/year of solvent-MX.
The turnaround will coincide with the shutdown of Honam's naphtha-fed steam cracker over the same period. The steam cracker has a design capacity of 720,000 mt/year of ethylene and 360,000 mt/year of propylene, and supplies crude C-4 feedstock to a 130,000 mt/year butadiene plant.
Honam has another aromatics plant at Daesan which is able to produce 60,000/year of solvent-MX, 236,000 mt/year of benzene and 120,000 mt/year of toluene.
