The latest Chinese company to license Ineos Technologies’ (Rolle / Switzerland; www.ineos.com) proprietary “Innovene PP” process is Zhong Tian He Chuang Energy Company, a joint venture between Chinese chemical giant Sinopec (Beijing; www.sinopec.com) and state-owned China National Coal Group (ChinaCoal, Beijing; www.chinacoal.com). The Rolle-based group has licensed its process to Zhong Tian He Chuang’s 350,000 t/y PP plant, located in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, about 700 km west of Beijing. The methanol-to-olefins facility will produce a range of PP resins, Ineos said, from homopolymers to random copolymers and impact copolymers, with output earmarked for the Chinese market.

Ineos Technologies signed a number of license deals for its Innovene PP process with Chinese companies last year, including Sinopec Maoming Company, Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group (Yinchuan, Ningxia / China; www.baofengenergy.com/index.asp) and Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yanan Energy and Chemical – see Plasteurope.com of 24.10.2011, 09.09.2011 and of 05.09.2011.