INEOS ramps up technology licensing in China
9 Sep 2011
London – INEOS Technologies has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropylene homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers to the Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Company Ltd in Ningxia, China. The 300 KTA Innovene PP plant will produce a wide range of polypropylene products for the Chinese market.
The olefin feedstock for the polypropylene plant will be produced using locally sourced coal via the Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) process - an increasingly important route to olefins in China.
INEOS Technologies participates in this new sector by offering process technologies to make polyolefins and other chemicals from olefins. It is the fourth licence acquired by Chinese companies building MTO plants.
“INEOS Technologies is proud to serve this growing coal chemicals sector in China and is pleased to be recognised by this industry as a leader in polyolefins technologies,” said Peter Williams, CEO of INEOS Technologies.
The Ningxia PP license follows a 1 Sept deal with Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yanan Energy and Chemcal Co. of Shaanxi Yanchang , China, involving PP process technology for the manufacture of homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers at a 300ktpa facility.
On 4 Aug INEOS announced that Qingdao Haijing Chemical (Group) Co. Ltd of Qingdao, China was licencing its vinyl chloride Monomer (VCM) and suspension polyvinyl chloride (S-PVC) technologies for use in a 400ktpa VCM/300ktpa S-PVC facility.
INEOS Technologies’ complete portfolio of licensed technologies includes:
Innovene PP - gas phase technology for the production of polypropylene
Innovene S - slurry technology for the production of mono and bi-modal HDPE
Innovene G -swing gas phase technology for the production of LLDPE and HDPE
BICHLOR - membrane electrolyser technology for chlor alkali production
Vinyls - technology for the production of EDC, VCM and PVC
Nitriles - technology for the production of Acrylonitrile and Maleic Anhydride
