PQU plans ethylene expansion in Brazil

02-Nov-06

Petroquimica Uniao (PQU), 37.2% owned by Unipar plans to construct a new 500,000 tpa ethylene train, expanding capacity at its Capuava site in Sao Paulo (Brazil) to 1.2 million tpa by 2010. PQU will ramp up its ethylene facility by 200,000 tpa to 700,000 tpa at an investment cost of R$840 M (US$390 mln), in a project scheduled for completion in Q2-2008. The additional ethylene output will be used to support the polyethylene (PE) expansion at Polietilenos Uniao, a wholly owned subsidiary of Unipar that produces low density polyethylene (LDPE) and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA).