Industry: Polyolefins

Borealis to invest €200 million in new Borstar polyolefin capacity at Schwechat, Austria Borealis announced its plans to invest €200 million in the construction of a new 350,000 MT/year polyethylene (PE) plant, based on its proprietary Borstar bimodal-PE technology, and a 90,000 MT/year expansion of the existing Borstar polypropylene plant to 300,000 MT/year at its […]

DuPont Dow Elastomers starts up new 135,000 MT plant for Engage® polyolefin elastomers DuPont Dow Elastomers has announced that in May 2003 it produced the first prime pounds from its new 300 million pounds/135,000 MT per year facility for Engage polyolefin elastomers in Plaquemine, Louisiana. With this new facility on stream, DuPont Dow’s total capacity […]

Eastman & Hanwha announce joint venture development & licensing program for ENERGX technology Eastman Chemical Company, through its Voridian division has announced that it has signed a joint development and licensing agreement with Hanwha Chemical Corp. to further enhance Eastman’s proprietary Energx DCX polyethylene (PE) technology and allow Hanwha to sublicense the technology. According to […]

ChevronPhillips and ExxonMobil to cross-license PE loop slurry technology Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC and ExxonMobil Chemical Company entered into an agreement to exchange proprietary technology using loop slurry technology, first developed by ConocoPhillips. The cross-licensing agreement establishes Chevron Phillips as the exclusive licensor to third parties of loop slurry process technology. ExxonMobil Chemical gains […]

ExxonMobil to Grant rights for its metallocene technology to Sumitomo Chemical ExxonMobil has agreed to license intellectual property rights for the use of metallocene technology to Sumitomo Chemical Company. Sumitomo intends to use the metallocene technology in its solution process plant in Chiba for the production of novel amorphous propylene-based copolymer. Products manufactured via the […]