MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, owner of the broadest portfolio of PPS products and compounds worldwide, has announced that its Xtel polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) alloy products will now be marketed under the Ryton PPS brand name as XE or XK PPS alloys, according to the company's press release.
The goal of the brand change is to reduce confusion between the different Chevron Phillips Chemical PPS product lines and leverage the strength of the Ryton PPS brand.
"For years, the Ryton PPS brand has been recognized by customers as a trusted name for quality products because of its excellent chemical resistance, long term property retention and dimensional stability at high temperatures," said Kyle Mathis, Engineering Polymers General Manager for Chevron Phillips Chemical. "Aligning all our PPS products under the same brand reinforces to customers the quality of our high performance XE and XK products."
In addition to maintaining the chemical resistance, strength and thermal stability of traditional PPS compounds, Ryton XE and XK PPS alloys offer higher ductility and toughness while expanding the processing options to include extrusion and blow molding.
Because of their unique characteristics, XE and XK PPS alloys are well-suited for use in a variety of applications including under-the-hood automotive connectors, residential water meters and irrigation valves, as well as energy storage and lithium battery components.
Product brand changes are expected to be phased in over the next several months, beginning in January 2014.
As MRC reported earlier, in November, 2013, Yokogawa Electric Corp. selected as the main automation contractor for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP’s USGC Petrochemicals Project, which was first announced in March 2011. The project will include an ethane cracker with capacity to produce 1.5 mln tpa and two new polyethylene facilities, each with an annual capacity of 500,000 tons. The ethane cracker will be built at Chevron Phillips Chemical’s Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas, and two polyethylene units will be built at a site in Old Ocean, also in Texas and near Chevron Phillips Chemical’s Sweeny plant.
Chevron Phillips is a chemical producer jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66. The company was formed July 1, 2000 by merging the chemicals operations of both Chevron Corporation and Phillips Petroleum Company. A 50/50 venture, the company continues to be governed by a board of directors composed of two members from each of the parent companies. Chevron Phillips is headquartered at The Woodlands, Texas (a northern suburb of Houston), and is a major producer of ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, K-Resin(r) SBC, ryton polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), alpha-olefins, polyalphaolefins, aromatic compounds and a range of specialty chemicals.
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