PTT Global Chemical Gets Green Light For LLDPE Expansion, Hexene-1 Unit

摘要

Banekok-PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC) has received board of director approval to invest $288.2-million in a project that will expand linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) capacity and add a new hexene-1 plant. The project, scheduled to begin commercial operations in 2018, will double PTTGC's LLDPE capacity to 800,000 t/y from 400,000 t/y and increase the company's total polyethylene capacity to 1,995,000 t/y. It also involves construction of a 34,000-t/y comonomer hexene-1 unit.