QGPC Selects LyondellBasell Technology For New Polypropylene Plant in China

:: 27 Jul  2020 ::

Beijing—Quanzhou Grand Pacific Chemical Co. (QGPC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corp. (GPPC) of Taiwan, has chosen LyondellBasell's Spheripol technology for a new 450,000-t/y polypropylene (PP) facility to be built in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China.

"With the selection of LyondellBasell's polypropylene technology, we see us in a position to respond best to customers' needs to deliver benchmark polypropylene products on a competitive basis based on the selected Spheripol technology," said Pin-Cheng Yang, chairman of QGPC and GPPC.

This past March, PCN reported that GPPC expected to spend $1.67-billion to build a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit and PP project in Quanzhou (PCN, 9 Mar 2020, p 1).

The PDH unit would have a production capacity of 1-million t/y of propylene, while the PP plant would have a total of 900,000 t/y of production capacity.  The first phase is expected to begin production in 2023.

According to GPPC's website, QGPC was established in 2020 mainly to produce propylene by PDH, PP and hydrogen in Fujian Province.

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