NETHERLANDS: Sabic installing new PP pilot plant at Brightlands Chemelot Campus

Sabic will install a new pilot plant for the development of next generation polypropylenes (PP) at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands.

Zeton, a designer and builder of pilot and demonstration-scale plants, will begin installing the unit in December 2016. Start-up is expected by the end of March 2017.

"When it starts up next year, we will have considerably more capacity to develop new PP materials for commercialization in our current European assets in Geleen and in Gelsenkirchen, Germany," noted Lina Prada, global PP technology director.

Sabic opened a new state-of-the-art research center at the campus this past May.

Source: Weekly “PetroChemical News”, Durham, NC, USA; 28 Nov 2016

(Syed Rashid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan)