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(plastemart) -- The use of UNIPOL Polypropylene (PP) Technology from Dow Basic Plastics Licensing and Catalysts continues to
grow at a rapid pace in China. China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Baotou
Coal Chemical Company is the latest company to start up a plant using this
technology and is the first in China to manufacture PP made from coal-generated
olefins. A leader among Chinese manufacturers pioneering the coal-based
production of chemicals and plastics, Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemicals Company’s
300,000 tpa Polypropylene facility came online earlier this month in Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region, The People’s Republic of China. According to the
company, its gasification technology converts coal into a synthesis gas (or
syngas); syngas is used to produce methanol, which is transformed into olefins –
a building block for producing polypropylene.
According to MRC data, Dow's share in the Russian market in 2008 was 2.5%
of polyethylene (including LLDPE – 33.1%), 0.8% of
polypropylene (including PP-impact - 1.1%) and 2.6% of polystyrene. Annual sales growth in Russia over
the course of recent 5 years was 55% of polyethylene, 28% of
polypropylene and 2% of polystyrene. Dow imports by pipe extrusion, film extrusion, sheet extrusion and foaming processing technologies.
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