MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical (ZRCC, part of Sinopec) has restarted its Polypropylene (PP) unit following an unplanned outage, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has resumed operations at the unit on November 10, 2019. The unit was shut owing to technical issues on November 7, 2019.
Located at Ningbo, China, the PP unit has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, LyondellBasell (LBI), one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, has recently announced that China Petrochemical International Co., Ltd (Sinopec International) has selected LyondellBasell’s world-leading polypropylene (PP) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technologies for a new facility. The plants will be built at the ZRCC complex in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China. The complex will comprise of a 300 KTA polypropylene plant that will utilize LyondellBasell’s Spherizone PP process technology and a 300 KTA high-density polyethylene plant which will utilize LyondellBasell’s Hostalen ACP process technology.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, the estimated PP consumption in the Russian market was 976,790 tonnes in January-September 2019, up by 4% year on year. Shipments of PP block copolymer and homopolymer PP increased.
Sinopec Corp. is one of the largest scale integrated energy and chemical company with upstream, midstream and downstream operations. Its principal business includes: exploring, developing, producing and trading crude oil and natural gas; producing, storing, transporting and distributing and marketing petroleum products, petrochemical products, synthetic fiber, fertilizer and other chemical products. Its refining capacity and ethylene capacity rank No.2 and No.4 globally. Sinopec listed in Hong Kong, New York, London and Shanghai in August 2001. Sinopec Group, the parent company of Sinopec Corp., is ranked the 5th in Fortune Global 500 in 2012.
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