South Korea: Polypropylene and Ethylene Production Hanwha Total Invests 500 Million Dollars to Develop Petrochemical Complex

On expansion of the company’s Daesan integrated refining and petrochemical complex, the firm is expected to increase polypropylene and ethylene capacity to 1.1 million tonnes per year and 1.5 million tonnes respectively.

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Paris/France – Hanwha Total Petrochemical, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Hanwha, will invest nearly 500 million dollars to further expand its Daesan integrated refining and petrochemical complex in South Korea. The planned investment will increase polypropylene capacity by close to 60 % to 1.1 million tonnes per year by the end of 2020. The ethylene capacity will simultaneously increase by 10 % to 1.5 million tonnes.

This project complements the ongoing investments totalling 750 million dollars to increase the complex's ethylene production capacity by 30 % to 1.4 million tonnes per year by mid-2019 and to expand polyethylene production capacity by 50 % to 1.1 million tonnes by end-2019. All these investments are designed to take advantage of competitively priced propane feedstock, which is abundantly available due to the shale gas revolution in the United States. With this new investment, Daesan will be in a position to capture margins across the propylene-polypropylene value chain, as it already does in the ethylene-polyethylene value chain.

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The additional production of high-value-added polymers will allow the complex to meet local demand and supply the fast-growing Asian market.

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