# Nova Chemicals starts up new LLDPE reactor at Joffre, Alberta

Nova Chemicals Corporation has started up a new world-scale linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) gas phase reactor at its site in Joffre, Alberta, and is now shipping butene LLDPE to customers. The $1-billion investment increases LLDPE production capacity by close to one billion pounds.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-01-17
- Where: Joffre, Alberta, Canada
- Value: $1.00B
- Starts operating: 17 Jan 2017
- Status: completed
- Capacity: close to one billion pounds per year of LLDPE
- Products: linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE)
- Sectors: [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [NOVA Chemicals](https://endata.com/companies/2940.md)

## Sources

- [canplastics.com](https://www.canplastics.com/materials/nova-chemicals-joffre-expansion-now-open/1003439664/), 2017-01-17: "The new capacity allows [us] to meet the growing demand for flexible films used in food packaging, heavy-duty sack and can liners."
- [industrialinfo.com](https://www.industrialinfo.com/news/article/nova-chemicals-new-lldpe-unit-points-to-more-potential-for-polyethylene-related-growth--256503), 2017-02-20: "NOVA officials noted that last month's completion of the $1 billion PE1 polyethylene unit expansion at its complex in Joffre, Alberta, marks the first new LLDPE reactor in the Americas in more than a decade."

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