Turnaround at JX Nippon Mizushima PX plant in end-Jan

Japan-based, JX Nippon Oil and Energy Corp plans to undertake a turnaround at one of its paraxylene (PX) plants early next year. 

 

The company official informed Fibre2fashion, “The line No. 3 with production capacity 350,000 mt/year located at Mizushima will undergo maintenance turnaround in the last week of January 2013 and will restart operation in the first week of March 2013.”

JX Nippon operates five PX plants in Japan, of which Chita and Kawasaki plants, each have a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.

The plant at located in Kashima has 550,000 mt/year, while Mizushima  operates 3 lines of which line No 1 and 2 , each have a production capacity of 230,000 mt/year and line No 3 has 350,000 mt/year and Oita has 440,000 mt/year.