MOSCOW (MRC) -- Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO), has signed a license agreement with Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC, a wholly owned Subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, for UNIPOL polypropylene process technology, said Businesswire.
"We are excited about the economic contribution we will make in Qatar with this first PP facility in the country. UNIPOL PP technology will give us the ability provide our customers with high quality PP products."
The 540 KTA polypropylene (PP) production facility will be located in Ras Laffan, Qatar, and will produce homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers from a mixed feed cracker.
"The Middle East is in a growth period, and with UNIPOL PP Process Technology, QP/QAPCO will have the benefits of low investment and operating cost, the broadest product capability and leading product performance," said Tracy Cleckler, president of Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC. "QP/QAPCO’s customers will also be able to produce polypropylene products that are lighter, clearer and cleaner to meet growing demand for high-quality polypropylene products."
The QP/QAPCO facility will be the first polypropylene plant in Qatar. UNIPOL PP Process Technology positions polypropylene manufacturers to meet and exceed increasing demand for high quality polypropylene.
Polypropylene is a very versatile plastic used in packaging, durable goods, automotive parts, non-wovens, fibers and consumer applications. Resins produced by UNIPOL Polypropylene Technology from Dow account for 17% of global polypropylene output.
There are currently 48 operating lines worldwide and 15 reactor lines under design and construction using UNIPOL Polypropylene Technology from Dow Polypropylene Licensing and Catalysts. The Polypropylene Process is an all gas-phase process for producing the broadest range of polypropylene resins. As MRC wrote before, Shanghai- Oriental Energy in March 2013 signed a license agreement with Dow for the use of UNIPOL PP process technology for a plant to be built in Zhangjiagang in Chinese Jiangsu Province.
The Dow Chemical Company is an American multinational chemical corporation. As of 2007, it is the second-largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue (after BASF) and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization (after BASF and DuPont). Dow is a large producer of plastics, including polystyrene, polyurethane, polyethylene, polypropylene, and synthetic rubber.
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