Fire at Kashima's paraxylene plant leads to indefinite shutdown

A fire erupted at Kashima Aromatics Company Ltd's paraxylene (PX) plant. The fire erupted near the pump in the PX plant during a restart process, and took more than three hours to get control. No report of injury was registered. The 420,000 tpa PX plant is currently closed for a week to resolve some minor technical problems, and is expected to remain shutdown for an indefinite period.