CB&I awarded contract by Egypt based Carbon Holdings for license and engineering design of PP unit

23-Feb-15

Petrochemicals technology manufacturer, CB&I has been awarded a contract by Egypt based Carbon Holdings for the license and engineering design of a polypropylene (PP) unit. The plant to be built in Ain Sokhna, Egypt will be aligned to the Tahrir petrochemical complex and use CB&I's Novolen technology to produce 350,000 metric tpa of polypropylene. CEO of Carbon Holdings, Basil El-Baz said, "This plant will become the first downstream development for the Tahrir Petrochemicals project, which will create jobs. It will be done so by establishing converter plants to process polypropylene from our subsidiary Oriental Petrochemicals into goods required for the Egyptian economy.