Equate shuts 400,000 tpa MEG plant for 10 day maintenance

Equate Petrochemical Co has shut its 400000 tpa monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant in Kuwait for a ten day maintenance turnaround. Contract supplies from the plant, that shut earlier this week, will not be affected due to availability of sufficient inventories. Equate's MEG line is integrated with an 800,000 tpa cracker and it also produces 600,000 tpa of PE at the same site at its petrochemical base of Shuaiba.