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Samsung Total selects Basell's Spherizone technology for a new 250 KT PP plant

19 Apr 2005 - Samsung Total Petrochemicals Company Ltd. has selected Basell's Spherizone technology for a new 250 KT per year polypropylene plant it will build at Daesan, Korea. Start-up is planned for the end of 2007. It is the first Spherizone license in Asia and the fifth worldwide.
 
"We're pleased that Samsung Total will be the first licensee of the Spherizone process in the Asia Pacific region," said Just Jansz, president of Basell's Technology Business, who attended a signing ceremony in Seoul, Korea.
 
The Spherizone process is Basell's newest polypropylene technology designed around the company's patented multi-zone circulating reactor system which can produce bi-modal products in a single reactor. Basell began licensing the technology in 2003.