LyondellBasell has started up a new 320,000-t/a Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at Münchsmünster, Germany.
The plant has 65 full-time employees and enhances the comapanies’s flexibility to supply advanced HDPE grades to customers in Europe and the Middle East.
The Holsten ACP technology’s enhanced multi-modality enables the production of high-performance resins used in demanding film, blow molding and pipe applications.
LyondellBasell also has HDPE production in Frankfurt and Wesseling, Germany, and a joint venture in Plock, Poland, all using the Hostalen ACP technology.
