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Coal-To-Plastics Plant Opens In China

by Alexander H. Tullo
August 30, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 35

China Shenhua Coal to Liquid & Chemical Baotou Coal Chemical Co., part of the Chinese coal giant Shenhua Group, has started up China’s first polypropylene plant to use feedstocks derived from coal. The 300,000-metric-ton-per-year plant, located in the coal-rich region of Inner Mongolia, uses Dow Chemical’s Unipol technology. Shenhua and Dow plan to construct a separate coal-to-chemicals complex in China within the next decade.

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