For the second time this month, Nova Chemicals Corp. has ended force majeure supply limits at a polyethylene resin production site.
On Nov. 20, Nova lifted those limits at its St. Clair River PE site in Corunna, Ontario. The limits had been in place since Sept. 26 because of an unplanned outage at the firm's ethylene cracker in Corunna, which is near Sarnia.
Officials with Nova in Calgary confirmed the St. Clair River move in a message to Plastics News. The St. Clair River site has annual production capacity of almost 900 million pounds of PE resin.
On Nov. 13, Nova had ended similar supply limits on PE resins made at the firm's plant in Moore Township, Ontario. Those limits had been in place since Sept. 14 because of production issues at the Corunna cracker.
The Moore site had also been under force majeure from late March until the end of May because of a similar issue. Nova operates about 550 million pounds of annual high density PE capacity and about 480 million pounds of low density PE capacity in Moore.
Nova is one of North America's largest PE resin makers. The firm employs almost 2,500 worldwide and is wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Co. of Abu Dhabi.