MOSCOW (MRC) -- LyondellBasell, the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, has announced HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) has selected LyondellBasell’s fifth-generation Spheripol polypropylene (PP) process technology for a 500 KT per year plant in Bathinda, India, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
"Recognized companies such as HMEL select the Spheripol process because of the technology’s low capital and operating costs, broad product capability and excellent operability,” said Jim Seward, vice president technology business and sustainability at LyondellBasell. “The Spheripol process has maintained its leadership over two decades through continuous process and product innovation."
Seward added, "The selection of Spheripol technology allows customers to enhance and diversify significantly their PP target product portfolio."
Spheripol is the leading PP process technology with more than 25 million tons of licensed capacity. The latest fifth generation Spheripol includes process improvements that further maximize operational efficiency.
LyondellBasell is a leading licensor of polypropylene and polyethylene technologies with more than 280 polyolefin process licenses.
As MRC reported earlier, in October 2018, Yantai Wanhua Chemical Group selected technology from LyondellBasell for a new high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant and PP unit in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China. The complex will include a 350,000-t/y HDPE plant, based on LyondellBasell's Hostalen ACP process technology, and a 300,000-t/y PP unit, which will utilize LyondelBasell's 5th generation Spheripol PP process technology. Cost of the project and a schedule were not given.
LyondellBasell is one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world. Driven by its 13,000 employees around the globe, LyondellBasell produces materials and products that are key to advancing solutions to modern challenges like enhancing food safety through lightweight and flexible packaging, protecting the purity of water supplies through stronger and more versatile pipes, and improving the safety, comfort and fuel efficiency of many of the cars and trucks on the road. LyondellBasell sells products into approximately 100 countries and is the world's largest licensor of polyolefin technologies.
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