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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Grupa Azoty (Tarnow,
Poland) says the first large propylene tank has been installed at its
EUR1.5-billion (USD1.82 billion) propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene
(PP) project at Police, Poland, said Chemweek.
The
tank, weighing 585 metric tons, was successfully transported to the construction
site in a three-day operation, it says.
The tank will have a storage
capacity for up to 1,400 metric tons of propylene and is the first of five that
will be used to store product from the PDH unit, for onward supply to the
adjacent PP plant. The first propylene tank was built at Gdynia shipyard in
Poland, it says.
The scheduled start-up of the Polimery Police project
was delayed by three months from the fourth quarter of 2022 into the first
quarter of 2023 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Grupa Azoty
confirmed in November. Project construction was 32% complete in November, it
said at the time. Hyundai Engineering is the general contractor. The complex at
Police will include a 437,000-metric tons/year PDH plant, feeding a
similar-capacity PP unit.
As per MRC, the scheduled startup of Grupa
Azoty’s (Tarnow, Poland) flagship Polimery Police propane dehydrogenation (PDH)
and polypropylene (PP) project at Police, Poland, has been delayed
to the first quarter of 2023 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic/
According to MRC's DataScope report, PP
imports into Russia increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the
first eleven months of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted
for the main increase in imports. |
