Many Purified Petroleum Benzene Down Stream Equipments Are Close in America and Asia

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 28, 2011 -- LyondellBasell announced their equipment in Channelview was stopped last week because of the force majeure lead to the weak demand in America. One of their cooling towers of epoxypropane – styrene posm equipment was broken on 17th, Mar, and it plays a very important part on producing styrene. The annual capacity this equipment is 1.2 to 1.4 billion pounds.

Sunoco announced their phenol equipments stopped because of the force majeure. Sunoco has got annual capacity 0.94 billion pounds equipment in Haverhill, Ohio, and an annual capacity 1.1 billion pounds in Pennsylvania. Purified petroleum benzene is the main material of styrene and phenol.
BASF – Ellbaeastern which is the joint venture of Shell in Singapore, they announced their annual capacity 550,000 tonnes styrene posm equipment was short of supply because of the force majeure. This equipment was stopped on last Wednesday.



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