LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Shaanxi Coal Yulin Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd. has selected LyondellBasell’s Spherizone and Lupotech T technologies. The technologies will be used in the Jingbian Chemical Industrial Park in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China.
“The Spherizone technology enables polypropylene producers to expand their business and capture additional value through product differentiation,” said Dan Coombs, Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing, Refining, Projects and Technology at LyondellBasell. “Lupotech T is the clear market leader in high pressure tubular LDPE technology offering low operating and investment costs to our customers.”
A leading executive at Shaanxi Coal Yulin Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd. stated, “Spherizone andLupotech T process technologies were selected following an extensive evaluation process and demonstrated that they are the state-of-the-art technologies in their respective markets.”
The Spherizone process is a new and advanced polypropylene technology expanding the product portfolio beyond the traditional range of polypropylene grades. Unlike other PP process technologies, it also allows for the production of entirely new families of propylene-based polymers using its unique multi-zone circulating reactor system. The Yulin plant will be the fourteenth plant in the world to be licensed under the Spherizone technology since its commercial launch in 2006, representing more than 4 million tons of annual PP capacity.
Lupotech T, with its high conversion rates and effective heat recovery system, offers fast grade changes and a high on-stream factor for world-scale production of LDPE and EVA copolymers.