Grace licenses UNIPOL® PP Process Technology to Hengli Petrochemical Refinery Co.

14-Jun-17

W. R. Grace & Co., the world's leading supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, contracted to license its UNIPOL^® PP process technology to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Hengli Group. The installation will be made at the company's facility in Dalian, Liaoning province, China, and is expected to begin operations in 2019 using Grace's leading SHAC^® Ziegler Natta PP catalysts. Hengli Petrochemical's PP unit is part of its new refinery complex designed to process 20 million tons of crude oil annually. The facility will produce a total of 450 kilotons per year of homopolymer, random copolymer, and impact copolymer thermoplastic resins in dual reactor lines. The project is one of 22 UNIPOL® PP process technology reactor line licenses in China.