(chemmonitor) -- Honam Petrochemical (South Korea) will soon finalize its polypropylene (PP) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) projects.
The manufacturer intends to exercise test runs at the new units in about two months. The facilities are situated in Yeosu.
A nameplate capacity of the PP plant will be 0.3 million tonnes per year. The HDPE unit, meantime, will produce 0.25 million tonnes per year.
The manufacturer already runs PP and HDPE manufacturing at the locality.
Honam Petrochemical is a Korea-based manufacturer of petrochemical products. The Company's products consist of monomers and polymers. The monomers include styrene monomer, butadiene, ethylene oxide adduct (EOA), ethylene glycol (EG), methyl methacrylate (MMA), and benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX).
The polymers include high density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP), low density polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), linear low density polyethylene and polycarbonate (PC). It also provides by products. The Company acquired 72.32% of Titan Chemicals Corp. Bhd, a Malaysia-based company engaged in the manufacturing and sale of polyethylenes and polypropylenes, on November 9, 2010.