Dow Licenses Unipol Polypropylene Process to China

Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer, China), a subsidiary of Jiutai Energy Group (Beijing), has signed an agreement to license Unipol polypropylene (PP) technology from Dow Chemical for a 350,000-m.t./year plant at Zhungeer, near Ordos, in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, China. The plant will receive propylene feedstock from an adjacent methanol-to-olefins plant. It will be designed to produce a full range of PP grades, including homo, random, and impact copolymers. The plant is expected to start up in 2015. Jiutai Energy commissioned a 1-million m.t./year...

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