Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals Inc said on Tuesday it restarted the 612,000-tonne-per-year naphtha cracker at its Ichihara plant in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Monday following repair work on an unspecified problem.
The company shut the cracker on Sept. 3 for maintenance and had said it would be restarted in about two weeks.
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