In China PP from Spheripol technology

LyondellBasell's Spheripol process technology has been selected by Pucheng Clean Energy Chemical Company for a new 400 KT per year polypropylene plant to be built in Pucheng (China). Start up is planned for 2013. The Spheripol process is a technology for the production of the entire range of polypropylene grades, including homopolymers, random copolymers and heterophasic copolymers. The Spheripol process polypropylene plant will be part of one of China's largest coal-based chemicals production projects, which is expected to produce more than two million tonnes of olefins per year.