Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Chemical Co. Ltd. has selected LyondellBasell’s Hostalen ACP polyethylene process technology for a 400 KTA high density polyethylene (HDPE) unit to be built in the Hengli Petrochemical Industrial Park (HPIP) on Changxing Island in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China.
Dan Coombs, Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing, Refining, Projects and Technology at LyondellBasell, said: “Hostalen ACP process technology allows our customers to produce high-performance multimodal HDPE products exhibiting a combination of properties not achievable with unimodal or bimodal grades.”
Hostalen ACP process technology manufactures high performance, multi-modal HDPE resins with excellent stiffness/toughness balance, impact resistance, high stress cracking resistance and processing advantages used in film, blow molding and pipe applications.