Fire at Tosoh VCM Plant

Tosoh says that a fire broke out following an explosion on November 13 at the company’s No. 2 vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant at Nanyo, Japan. One employee died as a result of the incident, Tosoh says. The cause of the accident had not been established by CW press time. Operations at the No. 2 VCM plant, which has a capacity of 550,000 m.t./year, and the No. 3 VCM plant at the site were halted temporarily following the accident. The No. 1 VCM plant at Nanyo is currently offstream for scheduled maintenance, the company adds. Tosoh has total VCM capacity...

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