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New polyethylene production plant in Mexico.
Braskem-Idesa is building a new integrated polyethylene production
plant in Mexico. The project, named Ethylene XXI, will be the largest
private petrochemical facility in Mexico.
It is being built in the
city of Nanchital in the municipality of Veracruz, in south-east
Mexico. It will produce 1.05mt of polyethylene a year from ethane.
Braskem-Idesa
is a joint venture between Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem and a
Mexican petrochemical group, Grupo Idesa. Braskem and Idesa
respectively hold 65% and 35% interest in the joint venture.
The
purpose of the project is to reduce the gap between Mexico's local
polyethylene production and demands, which are currently being met by
importing one million tonnes of polyethylene every year.
Alberta, Canada
Nova Chemicals Corp., Calgary, is nearing completion of a
$1.4-billion (US) expansion that will make its Joffre petrochemical
site in central Alberta the largest ethylene and polyethylene complex in
the world, according to the company.
Once the project's ethylene
and polyethylene plants begin operating, Nova Chemicals will become
North America's third-largest ethylene producer (7.8 billion lb/year
capacity) and fifth-largest polyethylene producer (3.5 billion lb/year).
The largest new facility is a $750-million Ethylene 3 plant (E3),
which will be the world's largest ethane cracker (Fig. 1). When E3 comes
on stream in August, its annual rated production capacity of 2.81
billion lb of ethylene will complement the 3.4 billion lb from the
Ethylene 1 (E1) and Ethylene 2 (E2) plants, which began operating in
1979 and 1984, respectively.
The nearby Polyethylene 2 plant
(PE2) will be the world's largest solution polyethylene plant and the
first commercial facility to use Nova Chemicals' Advanced Sclairtech, a
catalyst and process technology that creates various grades of
high-margin products.
The PE2 plant will begin commercial
operation in early 2001 and will have an initial annual production
capacity of 850 million lb of polyethylene. The existing 16-year-old
Polyethylene 1 plant (PE1) produces up to 1.2 billion lb of linear
low-density polyethylene.
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