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UPDATE 1-BASF's Antwerp cracker back, Ludwigshafen due soon.

FRANKFURT, Jan 4, Germany's BASF restarted its one-million tonnes-a-year ethylene cracker unit at Antwerp in Belgium at the start of the new year, a spokesman said on Monday. The unit was idled on Dec. 20 as a result of a fire.
The spokesman also said that the company hoped to reopen its German Ludwigshafen cracker, also closed since Dec. 23 due to a fire, either late in Jan. or early in Feb.
This has 220,000 tonnes a year of ethylene capacity and represents one third of BASF's cracker capacity at the Ludwigshafen site in southwest Germany, where the fire affected the smaller of two units, he said.
BASF, the world's largest chemicals company, has three of its five crackers in Europe.
These convert refined oil products into basic petrochemicals for further processing.
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