28 April 2015
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Honeywell (NYSE:HON) announced today
its Performance Materials and Technologies division
has opened a new manufacturing facility in China
to produce state-of-the-art catalysts used
to make components for plastics production.
This new site in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province,
has begun production of catalysts
used to convert propane to propylene
as traditional sources for this product shrink.
The catalysts are used in
the Oleflex™ process developed by Honeywell's UOP,
a global leader in technology for the oil and gas industries.
Over the past four years, UOP has licensed
its Oleflex technology to 30 producers globally,
including 25 in China.
The first two of these new plants came online in China last year.
Honeywell announced its plans to add this manufacturing capacity
in October 2013. The facility is located in
an established, world-class industrial park
about 85 miles northwest of Shanghai.
In addition to Oleflex catalysts,
the site will produce adsorbent materials
used in applications including refining and petrochemical production
and natural gas processing.
Honeywell also is planning production of materials
for other fast-growing technologies at the site.
WWW.CHEMWINFO.COM BY KHUN PHICHAI
