NPC Mobilizes to Expand Polypropylene Production

A project to produce catalysts used in polypropylene and high-density polyethylene will be launched at the Arak Center of the Petrochemical Research and Technology Company, Markazi Province, in the coming weeks, managing director of the National Petrochemical Company said.
“The vision of the petrochemical industry is to produce catalysts with domestic knowhow and reduce imports,” the NPC news website Nipna quoted Behzad Mohammadi as saying.
Referring to the progress of his company in producing petrochemical catalysts and acquiring the advanced technical knowhow, he said: “Last year, production of polypropylene from natural gas started in Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, by PRTC experts and engineers and a similar project is underway in Eslamabad-e-Gharb in Kermanshah Province.”
The semi-industrial unit in Arak to produce polypropylene and HDPE catalysts is designed to produce 1,200 tons a year. The methanol to propylene unit in Mahshahr, launched last year, produces 40 kg of propylene from methanol per hour.