Sinopec selects LyondellBasell process technologies for new PP and HDPE plants at Zhenhai complex

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that China Petrochemical International Co., Ltd (Sinopec International) has selected LyondellBasell’s world-leading polypropylene (PP) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technologies for a new facility.
 
The plants will be built at the Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical complex in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China. The complex will comprise of a 300,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)  polypropylene plant that will utilize LyondellBasell’s Spherizone PP process technology and a 300,000-m.t./yr high-density polyethylene plant which will utilize LyondellBasell’s Hostalen ACP process technology.
 
“This again demonstrates LyondellBasell’s leadership in polymer process technologies in the market,” said Jim Seward, senior vice president of research and development, technology and sustainability at LyondellBasell. Seward added: “The selection by Sinopec International of the Spherizone technology as the innovative manufacturing platform for polypropylene resins and the Hostalen ACP technology as the leading low-pressure slurry process for the production of HDPE resins shows once again the confidence the market has in our technologies.”