Scheduled for start up in 2015, the first HP facility in the country is being built at Sadara’s chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City II.
The facility will provide raw material to Sadara’s HP-to-propylene oxide (HPPO) manufacturing plant on the site, thereby supporting its propylene oxide (PO) derivative units, which produce polyols and propylene glycol.
Solvay said it is the third JV mega HP plant for the company after the 230,000 MT/yr plant in Antwerp, Belgium, a JV with Dow Dow and BASF, and the 330,000 MT/yr mega plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, a JV with Dow.
Sadara CEO Ziad Al-Labban said, "We are delighted to be partnering with Solvay, a global leader in HP, to build this world scale plant to feed our PO, PO derivatives and Polyurethane business.
"This partnership will provide us with a stable and reliable supply of a key raw material which is critical to support our Polyurethane-based customers and downstream value chains," Al-Labban added.