Shandong Dongda plans new PO, polyols units

03 September 2008 09:29  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS news)--Shandong Dongda Chemical plans to install a new 100,000 tonne/year propylene oxide (PO) unit and a new 200,000 tonne/year polyols plant at Zibo in eastern Shandong province, China, before 2011, a company source said on Wednesday.

“We are preparing for the proposed facilities now,” the source said in Mandarin at the sidelines of a three-day PU China exhibition which opens on Wednesday.

The producer’s existing capacities include a 70,000 tonne/year PO unit and a 100,000 tonne/year polyols plant.

Other key polyols producers in China include CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals, Tianjin Petrochemical and Shanghai Gaoqiao.

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