QAPCO’s new Qatar LDPE plant on track to complete in end-2011
20 April 2010 02:59 [Source: ICIS news]
SHANGHAI (ICIS news)--Qatar Petrochemical (QAPCO) is on track to complete its new low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant in
“Uhde has been awarded the lump-sum turnkey contract to build the 300,000 tonne/year plant at Masaieed and we licensed Lupotech T technology,” the source said at the ChinaPlas exhibition in
Uhde is a German engineering major, while Lupotech T technology is an LDPE process technology owned by LyondellBasell.
Qapco operates an 800,000 tonne/year cracker and a 410,000 tonne/year LDPE plant.
With additional reporting by John Richardson
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