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28^th Nov 2017: W. R. Grace & Co., a supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has contracted to license its UNIPOL PP process technology to Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co., Ltd. for a 1-MMtpy ethylene cracker and refinery expansion project at its facility in Quanzhou, Fujian province, China. Sinochem’s 350-ktpy line is expected to begin operations in 2020 to produce high-end impact copolymers. The Quanzhou operation is a subsidiary of Sinochem Group of Beijing, one of China’s four state oil companies and its leading chemical service provider. Sinochem Quanzhou previously licensed UNIPOL PP Process Technology in 2009 for a 200-ktpy line in Quanzhou that started up in 2014. Source

28^th Jul 2020: The cracker has 1mn t/yr of ethylene and 500,000 t/yr of propylene capacity, and a full 1/2stream of petrochemical derivative units including 100,000 t/yr EVA, 400,000 t/yr HDPE, 200,000/450,000 propylene oxide/styrene (PO/SM), 580,000 t/yr PP and 120,000 t/yr BD capacity. (Source)