In Dorama said recently that its cracking unit, located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is scheduled to resume production in the fourth quarter of this year. The company said in its quarterly results that the cracker is currently being commissioned to 2019. Year is expected to continue production throughout the year.
The idle cracker was acquired by Western Chemical Company at the end of 2015. The cracker has been idle since 2001 and can produce ethylene with ethane and propane as raw materials (capacity of 370,000 tons / Year) and propylene (capacity of 30,000 tons / year). After the completion of the acquisition, Indrama has expanded the cracking unit and is currently able to produce 420,000 tons of ethylene per year and 20,000 tons of propylene per year.