Dow and SABIC Announce Start Up of World’s Largest UNIPOL PP Train

10-Nov-2008 - Saudi Arabia

Dow Technology Licensing, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated affiliates (Dow), and Saudi European Petrochemical Co., a Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Joint Venture, announced the start-up of the world’s single largest polypropylene (PP) train. The facility is located in Al Jubail Industrial City on the Persian Gulf Coast and uses UNIPOLTM Polypropylene Process Technology to manufacture homopolymers and random copolymers. Nameplate capacity is 500 thousand metric tons of PP resins per year.

The start-up is the third facility at the IBN ZAHR-SABIC JV in Al Jubail to employ the UNIPOL PP Process. With this facility and another being built in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, SABIC will have nearly 1.8 million metric tons of annual capacity using UNIPOL™ PP Process Technology.

The UNIPOL™ PP Process Technology is a gas-phase process for producing the broadest range of polypropylene resins. Its simple design is both reliable and energy efficient, requiring no equipment for handling, separating or recycling solvents.

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