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(Plasteurope) -- Dow Chemical has
scored another coup with its “Unipol” technology in China. The US group has
clinched a deal with Qinghai Salt Lake Industry to license the process for a new
160 KTa PP production plant at Xining in central China’s Qinghai
province, set for start up in the second half of 2013. According to Dow,
Quinghai Salt Lake is the eighth licensee of the Unipol PP process in China.
The relatively small polypropylene unit is to form part of an integrated
coal-based magnesium metal complex planned by the potassium specialist. As part
of the project, coal gasification will be used to generate ethylene and
propylene as feedstock for the PP unit. The Chinese company also intends to
leverage its salt and coal resources to build a 300 KTa PVC plant at its
Xining site.
The two contracts for Dow and recent awards made to other North American
and European technology licensors appear to underscore that China’s
coal-to-olefins strategy is moving into high gear. Recently, Ningxia Baofeng
Energy Group selected the Ineos “Innovene” process for its new 300 KTa PP
plant at Ningxia, earmarked for start-up in 2015.
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