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MOSCOW (MRC) --
LyondellBasell announced that Kaijin Blue Sky Energy (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.,
has selected LyondellBasell’s leading polypropylene technology for a new world
scale facility, said the company.
The facility will include a 600 KTA
polypropylene plant using LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology as well as a 300
KTA polypropylene plant using LyondellBasell’s Spherizone technology. The
facility will be built in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
"The choice
of Kaijin Blue Sky Energy to use LyondellBasell’s polypropylene technology for
their Wenzhou facility demonstrates how future operators trust the unpreceded
polyolefin expertise of LyondellBasell. LyondellBasell’s polypropylene
technology is the most widely used process in the world and is very well
established in the market,” said Jim Seward, senior vice president of research
and development, technology and sustainability at LyondellBasell. “The
simplicity and robustness of the Spheripol process and the ability to produce
added value polymer grades on a benchmark cost basis with the Spherizone
technology is recognized by customers across the industry."
Mr. Yang
Xuanjian, the General Manager of Kaijin Blue Sky Energy (Zhejiang) Co.,
Ltd. stated: “The selected polyolefin technology from LyondellBasell gives us
the ability to deliver cost effectively recognized bulk polymers through the
Spheripol technology and to supply differentiated high margin polymer products
through the Spherizone technology allowing us to build up our organisation on a
solid basis."
The Spherizone multi-zone circulating reactor (MZCR)
provides a unique and innovative platform to manufacture polypropylene products
with novel architecture and enhanced product properties. With this award, more
than 15 Spherizone plants has been licensed in Asia. Spheripol is the leading PP
process with more than 30 million tons of licensed capacity. The latest fifth
generation Spheripol technology includes process improvements that further
maximize operational efficiency.
Both plants will commence operations
using LyondellBasell’s Avant ZN catalyst. New licensees can take advantage of
LyondellBasell’s in-house expertise of continuous production improvement,
sustainable product development and catalyst knowhow, by optionally joining our
Technical Service program.
As MRC informed earlier,
Hengyi Industries petrochemicals joint venture (JV) in Brunei has selected
LyondellBasell’s Hostalen technology for a 450,000 tonne/year high density
polyethylene (HDPE) facility to be built in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei
Darussalam. The plant - part of an integrated petrochemicals complex - will
also use LyondellBasell’s catalysts to produce multi-modal HDPE products.
Project costs or timelines for construction and completion were not
disclosed.
As MRC informed earlier,
LyondellBasell, the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today
announced that Hengyi Industries SDN BHD (Hengyi) will use the LyondellBasell
Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” technology for a new
facility.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,594,510 tonnes in the first nine
months of 2020, up by 1% year on year. Only high denstiy polyethylene (HDPE)
shipments increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market
reached 880,130 tonnes in the nine months of 2020 (calculated using the formula:
production minus exports plus imports, exluding producers' inventories as of 1
January, 2020). Supply increased exclusively of PP random copolymer. |
