Taiwan’s state-run CPC Corp plans to restart its smallest 230,000 tonne/year naphtha cracker in Kaohsiung on Thursday after a brief outage. The No 3 cracker was shut on Tuesday following a minor technical glitch and was expected to start two days later. “None of our downstream customers are affected, as we will ramp up production at our other two crackers,” he said, referring to the No 4 and No 5 crackers which were operating between 90-95% capacity. CPC also runs two other ethylene plants in southeast Taiwan, the 385,000 tonne/year No 4 naphtha cracker at Linyuan and the 500,000 tonne/year No 5 facility at Kaohsiung. The No 3 cracker would be scrapped after the second quarter of 2012, to be replaced by a 600,000 tonne cracker nine months later. CPC将于周四重启其高雄年产23万的石脑油装置，该装置于昨天停车。