Basell has sold a technology licence to Russia’s Titan Group

Basell has sold a technology licence to Russia’s Titan Group to build a 180,000tpa polypropylene plant at Omsk, in western Siberia, using Spheripol technology. Tecnimont has been selected as the engineering contractor.

Titan, established in 1998, is active in synthetic rubber, chemicals and fuel additives, and is a newcomer to polypropylene manufacture. Its new PP unit is scheduled to start up in 2007.

President of Basell’s technology business Just Jansz said: “Spheripol technology has been well established in Russia for many years. The Titan licence is the ninth licence overall granted by Basell in Russia; these licences represent a combined annual capacity of 1.6 million tonnes of polypropylene and polyethylene.”