What specific facilities is Lotte Chemical shutting down at its Daesan site, and when?

Lotte Chemical Corp. is permanently shutting its naphtha-fed steam cracker and the butadiene extraction unit at Daesan from the first week of September, as part of South Korea's restructuring process for naphtha-fed steam crackers and related production units.

What are the designed annual production capacities of the Daesan cracker for ethylene, propylene, and butadiene?

The Daesan cracker is designed to produce 1.1 million metric tons/year of ethylene, 550,000 mt/y of propylene, and 190,000 mt/y of butadiene.

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Aug 27, 2026

Lotte Chemical will permanently shut its Daesan naphtha cracker and butadiene unit in early September as part of restructuring tied to an HD Hyundai Chemical merger. The facility produces 1.1 million metric tons/year of ethylene and other key petrochemical feedstocks.

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