Wakayama petchem units schedule turnarounds

OREANDA-NEWS. Japanese refiner and petrochemical producer TonenGeneral will be taking its Wakayama plant off line for scheduled maintenance at the end of this month.

The plant will be shut from about eight weeks until early December. The plant has two production lines with a combined capacity to produce 330,000t/yr of paraxylene and 70,000 t/yr of orthxylene (OX).

TonenGeneral does not expect to have any spot cargoes of OX available until next year's first quarter.