MOSCOW (MRC) -- Tasked by company Grupa Azoty ((Tarnow, Poland), one of the main players on the European fertilizer and chemical market, Mammoet recently completed the first scope of work that will lead to the construction of the propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene (PDH/PP) blocks of its client’s chemical facility, according to Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The project took place in the town of Police, in the northwest of Poland, and involved the lifting and transport of more than 480 items from a small port to the construction site six kilometers away.
“We are happy to announce the completion of the first stage of our collaboration with Grupa Azoty Polyolefins,” says Jakub Walasek, Branch Manager for Mammoet Poland. “This is one of the biggest projects in Poland in recent years and we were entrusted to deliver some of the largest items ever moved on Polish roads.”
Among the items transported by Mammoet, 5 were extremely large with a weight between 600-800t, and the largest was around 900t. The size of many of those items required the company to look for efficient and sometimes creative ways to get them from the port to their final location.
Characteristic of this first scope of the project with Grupa Azoty Polyolefins was certainly its complexity. There were multiple items to be moved, and many of them came in different shapes and sizes. Mammoet used PST’s and conventional axle lines for the transport. The largest item, called the PP splitter, required the use of two times double 16 axle lines PST’s in dolly configuration with turntables.
As MRC wrote previously, in late January 2021, Grupa Azoty said the first large propylene tank had been installed at its EUR1.5-billion (USD1.82 billion) PDH and PP project at Police, Poland.
We remind that the scheduled startup of Grupa Azoty’s flagship Polimery PDH and 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 ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market was 246,870 tonnes in January-February 2021, up by 30% year on year. Supply of homopolymer PP and PP block copolymers increased.
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