An unplanned outage and force majeure was announced at Kuwait Paraxylene Production Company (KPPC), Kuwait, which has a PX production capacity of 830,000 tons per year, informed a official .
There was a power failure late in the evening on December 3, 2010, due to which fault occurred in some lines and affected some equipment as well, due to which, the company was forced to shutdown the plant and has declared force majeure of its PX supplies.
The maintenance is still going on in the plant and will resume production in 1-2 days.
Fibre2fashion News Desk - India