Methanex May Restart Waitara Valley Methanol Plant

摘要

Methanex is considering restarting its Waitara Valley Number 2 methanol plant within the next 12 months, Taranaki Daily News reported. The plant has been offline since 2008. It operated at reduced capacity from 2003 to shut-down. Bruce Aitken told the Taranaki Daily News that there was a high probability that the plant would be restarted. A final decision could be made by the end of the year. "We spend hundreds of millions of dollars running these plants so we need to make a good decision," Aitken said. Aitken plans to perhaps have both methanol plants in Waitara Valley operate at full capacity, something that hasn't happened since 2003. "That's what we've done in the past and that's what we plan to do in the future." If brought online the Waitara Valley plant would have a methanol output of 500,000 tonnes and will employ 50 workers.