Japan based Daicel Industries is likely to shut down its Acetic Acid unit for maintenance turnaround. The unit is likely to go off-stream for around one month. Unit is based at Himeiji in Hyogo province of Japan and has the production capacity of 4, 20,000 tonnes/year. Major acetic acid producers in Asia include BP, Celanese, China’s Jiangsu Sopo, Shanghai Wujing, Yankuang Cathay Coal Chemicals, Taiwan’s Chang Chun Petrochemical and Saudi Arabia’s International Acetyl Company.
