Aker Kvaerner wins China polyolefins projects

19 July 2007 12:31  [Source: ICIS news]

MUMBAI (ICIS news)--Aker Kvaerner has won a contract for a new China polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) facility from ShenHua Baotou Coal Chemicals, the Norway-based company said on Thursday.

 

Aker Kvaerner will provide the basic engineering design, technical advisory services, and certain offshore equipment procurement service for the project at ShenHua’s coal chemical complex in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.

 

The project will use Dow Chemical’s Unipol PP technology and Univation's Unipol PE technology.

 

"We have a strong project record and considerable local knowledge of working in the Chinese market. Both technologies are proven to be highly competitive," said Johan Cnossen, president of AK Process, a division of the company.

 

Both plants, which would have capacity of 300,000 tonnes/year, would commence this month, and the PP plant start-up is expected in latter half of 2010, Aker said.

 

This is the sixth polyolefins project in China that Aker is currently executing, it added. The contract value to Aker Kvaerner was not disclosed.

 

Aker also provided project management consultancy services for ShenHua Group's coal liquification project at Majiata, Inner Mongolia, which will be mechanically completed in the second half of 2007, it said.

 

By: Aarti Kapoor
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