MOSCOW (MRC) -- ThyssenKrupp Uhde has won a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a single-train polypropylene (PP) plant based on LyondellBasell's Spheripol process technology for ZapSibNeftekhim L.L.C, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sibur, as per Plastemart.
SIBUR is in terms of revenue the largest integrated gas processing and petrochemicals company in Russia, the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe.
The 500,000 tpa plant is planned to be constructed in Tobolsk, Tyumen Region, in West Siberia. LyondellBasell’s Spheripol process technology, which will be used at the plant, is the most widely used technology for the production of polypropylene.
The plant will produce a wide range of high-quality polypropylene brands for use, for example, in textile and packaging applications as well as in the production of automotive body parts and consumer goods.
As MRC reported earlier, in March 2013, LyondellBasel, one of the world's largest plastics, chemical and refining companies,announced that OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim, the largest petrochemical company in Russia, had selected the company's Spheripol process technology for a new 400,000 tonne per year single-line polypropylene (PP) plant to be built in Nizhnekamsk, Russia Federation. The start-up of the new facility is projected after 2015.
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