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Release time: 2023-09-15 15:21:50 Source: Saudi Arabia News (Reprinted by Business Department 3)

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) announced the commercial operation of a new polycarbonate (PC) plant built by the SSTPC joint venture. SSTPC is jointly funded by both parties in a 50:50 ratio. 

Founded in 2009, Sinopec (Tianjin) Petrochemical is a large petrochemical company with nine world-class chemical, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) production plants. The new polycarbonate plant is designed to produce 260,000 tons per year and is an important part of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation's polycarbonate growth strategy in China, which will promote cooperation with international and local customers.


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Sipchem announced on July 4th on Linkedin to have "signed an Engineering and procurement Sign off of its Expanded Production Capacity for High-VA  Ethylene Vinyl Acetate ( EVA) production plant."

"This investment will enable Sipchem to produce innovative EVA grades designed to support downstream production of Solar Encapsulate Cells as well as certain Hot Melt Adhesives." the company stated. 

The production plant, based on ExxonMobil's tubular reactor technology, belongs to International Polymers Company, a subsidiary JV of Sipchem and Hanwha Solutions Corporation, and is installed in Al-Jubail, 🇸🇦 KSA. 

With a design capacity of 200,000 tpa, the plant is thought to be running at close to 220,000 tpa. Debottlenecking by an additional 70,000 tpa will bring the plant output close to 290,000 tpa.

The company declined to comment on the engineering solution that will be employed to increase the plant capacity.

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