According to Mehr News Agency, the PRTC (Petrochemical Research and Technology Company) of Iran, a subsidiary of NPC, signed a MOU with France’s “Air Liquide” Engineering and Construction Company on transferring latest technology to convert methanol to PP.
Late on Wednesday Aug. 9th 2017, at the presence of Marzieh Sahdaei the NPC Director, Helmut Maschke, vice president for Central and Eastern Europe of Air Liquide Engineering and Construction, and Esmaeil Qanbari, the head of PRTC, the MOU signed in Tehran .
Notifying that “plans are in place to raise the production of the complex to 500,000 tons per year in cooperation with energy majours like “Air Liquide” Esmaeil Qanbari siad: “PRTC has launched a pilot polypropylene production unit with a limited output of 120,000 tons annually”.
Air Liquide is an engineering, construction and chemical process licensing company. Since 2007, it has been part of Air Liquide S. A., a multinational company that supplies industrial gases and services to industries. PRTC is the research and development arm of NPC.
The PRTS dean said also: “To complete the value chain of the petrochemical industry, NPC has set a tight schedule to boost polypropylene production, which entails cooperation between PRTC and multinationals”.
According to NPC reports, plans call for increasing total production of propylene to 4 million tons per year in 2021 and 8 million tons within the next decade.
Pointing to PRTC’s new model to interact with international firms, Qanbari said long-term collaboration with foreign enterprises will be contingent on their willingness to help us indigenize cutting-edge technologies that are transferred to Iran.
“Facilitating technical know-how transfer to the country, creating jobs, completing value-added chains in petrochemical industries and connecting upstream, midstream and downstream sectors are among the advantages of the new model,” he said.
“Our technology for producing propylene from methanol offers clients low cash costs and its propylene product can be used as feedstock for a variety of other petrochemical processes,” Maschke said, noting that Air Liquide combines cutting-edge innovation with a comprehensive portfolio of proprietary technology to contribute to the transformation of many industries.
