MOSCOW (MRC) -- National Petrochemical Industrial Company (NATPET) has taken its polypropylene (PP) plant off-stream for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Saudi Arabia informed that the company has schedule to commence maintenance at the plant last weekend. The plant is expected to remain shut for around 4 weeks.
Located at Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, the plant has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
This plant is producing a wide range of PP product mix of (homopolymers, random & heterophasic copolymers) that is suitable for a wide variety of applications. Natpet has acquired state of the art Spheripol process to produce polypropylene from LyondellBasell, which is the world leader in polypropylene technology.
As MRC reported earlier, in December 2015, NATPET, a subsidiary of Alujain Corp., invested USD15 million into Siluria Technologies, a San Francisco-based developer of process technologies for petrochemical value chains. The Saudi producer of propylene and polypropylene (PP) joins other strategic such as the Oman-based Fine-Teck and GermanyпїЅs Linde. Last year, Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) pumped USD50 million into Siluria.
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