Nova Chemicals' steam crackers in Joffre, Alberta, and Corunna, Ontario, have been restarted following outages, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The 816,480 mt/year Ethylene 2 steam cracker at Joffre had experienced an unplanned shutdown in late October.
"All assets have recovered and are now running, including the NOVA Chemicals Ethylene 2 facility," said company spokeswoman Roxann Good.
Calgary-based Nova houses three steam crackers at its Joffre site, which can produce more than 6 billion lb of ethylene, and polyethylene units that can produce more than 2 billion lb of PE.
The flexi-cracker in Corunna has been restarted since it was shut down in mid-August for a planned maintenance, Good said.
The Corunna cracker can produce 816,466 mt/year of ethylene and 317,515 mt/year of co-products like propylene, butadiene and benzene, among others.
Associated Nova facilities in Ontario -- its St. Clair River plant in Corunna and its Moore site in Mooretown -- have also been restarted after planned outages.
The Moore plant produces low-density and high-density polyethylene resins, according to Nova, with a capacity to produce 211,000 mt/year of HDPE and 170,000 mt/year of LDPE. The St. Clair River complex produces HDPE and linear-low-density polyethylene resin, with a total capacity of 180,000 mt/year, according to Nova.
