October 31 2006 – LG International aims to win sales of 20,000 tonnes of polypropylene in the UK market within two years based on supplies from a new joint venture plant in the Middle East. The Korean group shares ownership of the new 340,000 tonnes a year plant in Oman with Omani Petrochemicals and is targeting European sales of 100,000 tonnes a year.
Deliveries of Luban homopolymer, made by the Novolen gas phase process, start in December with supplies underpinned by stocks held in Felixstowe. Initially, the company will target injection moulding, BOPP (fibre), extrusion, thermoforming and film sectors in a range of melt flow indices including a high flow MFI 55 type.
Senior sales manager Andy Batchelor says that products made by the Novolen process, once employed by ICI at Wilton, are familiar to UK users. “Prices will be competitive and we will offer a responsive choice,” he says.
