Nova's new Joffre LLDPE reactor reaches mechanical completion

摘要

Calgary-based Nova Chemicals Corporation has announced the mechanical completion of its PE1 expansion project - a third gas phase reactor at the company's site in Joffre. Alta. The reactor is designed to produce approximately one billion lbs of LLDPE annually, a 40 per cent production increase in the Joffre site nameplate PE capacity to approximately 3.5 billion lbs. This will be the first new LLDPE reactor starting up in the Americas in more than a decade, Nova said in a statement.