Naphtachimie cracker at Lavéra to restart partially in March

The Naphtachimie steam cracker at Lavéra, France, is expected to restart operations partially during the first half of March, IHS Chemical says. The cracker sustained a fire in its CT1 gas compressor in late December 2012, a few weeks after restarting following a planned outage. The fire caused all production to be halted at the site. The cracker, a 50-50 joint venture between Ineos and Total, has capacities including 740,000 m.t./year of ethylene; 510,000 m.t./year of propylene; and 120,000 m.t./year of...

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