CSJC Nizhnekamsk Refinery has selected Basell's Spherizone technology for a new 200,000 tpa polypropylene plant to be built at Nizhnekamsk, Russia as part of a major refinery and petrochemical complex expansion. The project is scheduled for completion in 2011.
Spherizone technology is an advanced manufacturing process for the production of polypropylene. It uses a unique, state-of-the-art, multi-zone circulating reactor system. Spherizone technology plants can produce the full range of polypropylene grades, as well as new families of propylene-based polymers with enhanced product properties.
Nine Spherizone process plants have already been licensed in 8 different countries, including The Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Western and Eastern Europe. Basell is a leading licensor of polypropylene and polyethylene technologies. It has licensed more than 200 polyolefin process licenses, twice that of any other polyolefin technology licensor. During the past 20 years, Basell technologies have been used in about half of all new polypropylene projects worldwide.
Basell also produces and commercialises advanced catalyst systems which are sold under the Avant trade name.
08-Aug-06 
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