Thailand’s HMC Polymers to construct new PP plant

Thailand’s HMC Polymers has announced on 26 June 2019 that the company is planning to construct the fourth PP plant in Map Ta Phut site, Rayong Province of Thailand.

The new PP unit would have an annual capacity of 220,000 tons and is scheduled to come online by 2022. HMC has completed the Licence Agreement with LyondellBasell to use the Spherizone technology for the new plant. 

Together with the three existing units, the new plant would boost HMC’s total PP output to1.03 million tons per year, making it the largest PP producer in Southeast Asia region.