Samsung Total selects Basell's Spherizone Technology for 250 KT PP Plant

04-May-05

Samsung Total Petrochemicals Company Ltd. has selected Basell's Spherizone technology for a new 250 KT pa polypropylene plant which it plans to build at Daesan, Korea, with start up planned for the end of 2007. This will be the first Spherizone license in Asia and the fifth worldwide. This new plant represents a key milestone for Spherizone. Samsung Total intends to purchase catalysts for the plant from Basell The Spherizone process is Basell's newest polypropylene technology designed around the company's patented multi-zone circulating reactor system, which can produce bi-modal products in a single reactor. Tecnimont S.p.A. of Italy has been selected to prepare the basic design package; Samsung Engineering will do the detailed engineering. In addition to the new Spherizone plant, Samsung Total plans to expand its cracker, build a metathesis unit and increase styrene capacity at the Daesan site.