Tag: Basell

BASF and Shell to sell stakes in Basell

BASF and Shell Chemicals are to sell their 50-50 joint venture Basell (The Netherlands) to a consortium led by New York-based Access Industries together with The Chatterjee Group (USA).

Iran: Basell technology for new HDPE plant

Gharb Petrochemical Complex has selected Basell’s Hostalen technology for a new 300 KT per year high density polyethylene plant. The plant is to be built at Kermanshah, Kermanshah province, Iran.

China: Uhde to build HDPE plant

Uhde GmbH has been awarded a contract by PetroChina Company Ltd to design a polyethylene plant.

Russia’s Nizhnekamsk builds new plant

One of Russia's largest petrochemical companies, OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim, plans to build a USD 125 million plant by 2006 to produce polypropylene.

Chinese polypropylene (4/4)

Tecnimont (Italy) has won contracts to build three polypropylene plants.

Polyethylene plant in Russia

Tecnimont, the Engineering and Construction Company of Montedison Group, has signed in Moscow, with AK Sibur, a Russian Company controlled by Gazprom, a contract covering the grant of licence and the supply of engineering, materials and equipment as well as technical assistance for the implementation at Kstovo (Nizhniy Novgorod) of a 120,000 tpy High Density Polyethylene Plant.

Polibrasil invests in PP capacity increase

Polibrasil, a joint venture of Suzano and Basell, began this week a USD 230 million investment project to set up a new PP unit in its facility at Maua, São Paulo, state.