SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwired - Jan 3, 2017) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Over the course of 2016, Industrial Info tracked 39 ethylene unit offline events with a total of 1,061 days of down time. Unplanned outage events played a small role with 26 events totaling roughly 274 offline days. Planned turnaround events accounted for the majority of down time with around 787 days spread over 13 individual units.

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