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W. R. Grace & Co. granted a license to PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk. to expand its existing UNIPOL PP plant in Ciwandan, Indonesia, to 590 KTA of polypropylene. The expansion will serve growing PP market demand in Indonesia.
W.R. Grace won contracts to license its Unipol PP process for a 350,000 t/y line at Sinochem Quanzhou in Fujian and two 400,000 t/y lines at Oriental Energy in Ningbo, all expected to start in 2020.
W.R. Grace was contracted in Q4 2016 to license its Unipol PP gas-phase process technology to Dongguan Grand Resource Science & Technology for a new polypropylene plant in Dongguan, China. The plant will produce 600,000 t/y of homopolymer resins and is expected to begin operations in 2019.