Total Petrochemicals, IFP Energies nou-velles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have announced an alliance with the objective to develop a technology for the production of ethylene by dehydration of ethanol. The quality of the monomers will be in line with modern derivative production processes, allowing the production of PE, PET, PS, PVC and ABS in existing unmodified downstream polymerisation installations.
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