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LyondellBasell to license HDPE process technology in Shandong Province

| By Mary Bailey

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Shandong Shougang Luqing Co. has selected LyondellBasell’s  Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) polyethylene process technology for a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit to be built in their petrochemical complex at Bohai Industry Park, Shouguang, Shandong Province, China. The plant will be designed for a capacity of 350,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of HDPE.

“With this contract, LyondellBasell has licensed 1.5 million tons of annual Hostalen ACP capacity this year,” said Dan Coombs, Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing, Refining, Projects and Technology at LyondellBasell. “This clearly demonstrates that this is the process technology of choice for the production of high-performance multimodal HDPE products.”