Orlen’s Unipetrol calls force majeure after incident shuts ethylene unit

PRAGUE, July 29 (Reuters) – The Czech unit of Orlen said on Monday it was facing a force majeure event after an outage of a cooling water system led to the shutdown of its ethylene unit at its Litvnov plant.

Czech group Orlen Unipetrol said on its website the shutdown also disrupted production of products dependent on the ethylene unit. It said a polyethylene unit was stopped and another faced reduced production, along with a polypropylene unit.

Force majeure refers to events beyond a company’s control and excludes its liability. (Reporting by Jason Hovet Editing by Mark Potter)

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