SABIC to build Belgium PP compounding plant

23 June 2008 12:29  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--SABIC plans to build a polypropylene (PP) compounding plant in Genk, Belgium, to produce plastics for the European automotives industry, the Saudi petrochemicals group said on Monday.

 

Expected to start up at the beginning of 2010, the plant would have the capacity to produce 110,000 tonnes/year of PP compound and 30,000 tonnes/year of STIMAX long glass fibre PP, Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) said.

 

"This plant will be the biggest green field PP compounding plant ever built in Europe and has been designed with fully optimised production and logistics flows in mind," said business unit director for SABIC PP Automotive Mark Neville.

 

“It will also be capable of housing an additional compounding line in the future taking its ultimate capacity in excess of 170,000 tonnes/year,” he added.

 

SABIC said Genk would also be the site of the company’s compounding innovation centre, which would house three pilot lines to develop new plastics for the automotives sector.

 

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