JXTG Nippon Oil and Energy, is in plans to restart its cracker following an unplanned outage.

A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that, the company is likely to resume operations at the cracker early this week. The cracker was shut owing to technical issues on May 4, 2020.

Located at Kawasaki in Japan, the cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 460,000 mt/year and propylene production capacity of 235,000 mt/year.