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Platts 2007/7/19

S Korean Honam Petchem to build, invest in $2.6 bil Qatar plant

South Korea's Honam Petrochemical said Thursday it has reached a deal to build a $2.6 billion plant in Qatar with a subsidiary of the state-run Qatar Petroleum.
Under the deal, Honam Petrochemical will invest $390 million to have
a 30% stake in the joint project, with Qatar Intermediate Industries Holdings Company controlling 70%, the company said in a filing to the local stock
exchange.
The plant, which will start production by the second half of 2011, will produce up to
700,000 mt/year of polypropylene, 600,000 mt/year of styrene monomer and 220,000 mt/year of polystyrene, it said. @@@@(in Mesaieed, south of Doha.)


Oct. 8, 2007@Foster Wheeler

Foster Wheeler Awarded Front-End Engineering Design and Management Contracts for New Petrochemical Complex in Qatar

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that two subsidiaries in its Global Engineering and Construction Group have been awarded contracts by Qatar Intermediate Industries Holding Co. Ltd. (Qatar Holding), a fully owned subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum, to execute the front-end engineering design (FEED) and to provide project management and construction management (PMCM) services for a new grassroots petrochemical complex to be located at Mesaieed in Qatar.

The new complex will include world-scale olefins and aromatics units, which will supply ethylene, propylene and benzene to the downstream polypropylene, ethylbenzene, styrene monomer and polystyrene facilities. The complex, which will also include ethylene-to-propylene conversion units, is scheduled for completion in 2011.


Platts 2007/7/27

S Korean Lotte Group working toward merger of three petchem firms

South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group is looking to merge three of its petrochemical firms into a single entity, sources close to the plan said this week. Two of these --
Lotte Daesan and Honam Petrochemical -- operate naphtha crackers and downstream petrochemical plants. The third, KP Chemical, produces aromatics and synthetic fibers, among other products.


KP Chemical, based in Ulsan, has a yearly capacity of 200,000 mt of paraxylene, 40,000 mt of orthoxylene, 23,000 mt of benzene and 6,000 mt of toluene from one plant. At another plant, it is capable of producing 500,000 mt/year of paraxylene, 150,000 mt/year of orthoxylene, 70,000 mt/year of benzene and 14,000 mt/year of toluene.

KP Chemical Corp., an affiliate of South Koreafs Lotte Group

KP Chemical is the largest producer of purified isophthalic acid (
ƒCƒ\ƒtƒ^ƒ‹Ž_ PIA) in Korea. The company is a recognized leader in the export of petrochemical products with around 95 percent of its products, including PIA, going to China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, Europe and the U.S.

We annually produce 700,000tons of P-X, 1.1 million tons of PTA, 400,000tons of PPR, 60,000tons of MeX and 70,000tons of PIA products by using the vertically combined production system established in the Ulsan Plant Complexes 1 and 2, which measure 50,000 pyeong and 40,000 pyeong respectively. At KP Chemical, we are proud of holding the top spot in both domestic PIA and PPR production(4th and 7th places worldwide), as well as the No. 2 spot for P-X production and the No.3 place for PTA production in Korea.
Our production system purchases the basic raw material MX - separately acquired from an oil refinery - and produces P-X and MeX (
Meta-Xylene). Our system is the only vertically combined production system in the world to use P-X and MeX as the raw materials for the follow-up process. The system greatly contributes to the production of high added value products with a simplified process, shared supplementary facilities and huge savings in investment, logistics and labor costs.

http://www.kpchem.com/


Honam Petrochemical completes purchase of KP Chemical

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CCR 2007-10-15

Weifang Yaxing Signs LOI with Korea Firms @@ˆΫ–V˜±―‰»Šw

On October 10th, Weifang Yaxing Chemical Co., Ltd. announced that it has singed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with two Korea companies, one is Honam Petrochemical Company. Under the agreement, Honan Petrochemical intends to acquire a 10% interest in Weifang Yaxing, and the other Korea firm for a 1% stake.

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Weifang YAXING Chemical Co. Ltd is a normative public company with YAXING Group as its holding company, which is one of the national 520 key enterprises and one of the 200 key enterprises in Shandong Province.
It has a developing history of over 80 years. Yaxing Chemical Co. Ltd mainly deals in high-tech products such as
chlorinated polyethylene (CPE), PVC and membrane caustic soda.

chlorinated polyethylene (CPE)

In 1990, Yaxing imported the 6,000t/a CPE plant from Hoescht AG, Germany.
Now Yaxing
fs production capacity has reached up to 110,000t/a, 40% of the global CPE sales volume.

Currently the outputs of the small and middle scale CPE producers in China are all less than 10,000t/a.
Yaxing CPE has been sold to 23 countries and regions all over the world, 40% of the world CPE market. The annual export volume is 30,000 tons and still increases by over 50% annually.

PVC

membrane caustic soda

120,000t/a membrane caustic soda plant by introducing worldfs most advanced technologies and equipment from Uhde, Germany

The joint ventures with Lanxess, Germany and Lotte, Korea produces hydrazine hydrate and CPE respectively. The production technology and equipment of Yaxing Chemical takes the lead globally.

LANXESS Yaxing Chemical (Weifang) Company Ltd. @iLanxess@55% j

hydrazine hydrate in Weifang in the Chinese province of Shandong ŽR“ŒΘˆΫ–V
Successful relocation of plant from Texas, USA, to China
With an initial capacity of
12,000 metric tons a year, the new plant is one of the largest of its kind in the world
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Weifang Yaxing Lotte Chemical Company Ltd.@iHonam Petrochemical 50%)

40 000 t/a CPE (chlorinated polyethylene) project started production in June 2005
expanded its existing 40 000 t/a CPE (chlorinated polyethylene) capacity
to 45 000 t/a.

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2008/4/24 Asia Chemical Weekly @@@@@LOI

Korean Honam takes stake in China top CPE producer

S.Korea
fs Honam Petrochemical Co.,- a subsidiary of Lotte Group, has got the approval from Provincial Government for taking stake in China largest Chlorinated Polyethylene (CPE) producer - YaSing (˜±―) Group, based in WeiFang, Shandong Province.

By investing USD 9.47 million (RMB 66.1 million), Honam has taken 10% stakes from YaSing Group, at the same time, another Korean company ? Daeil also got 1% stakes from YaSing by investing USD 0.947 million (RMB 6.61 million). Currently, YaSing Group becomes into a jv of WeiFang Government (45.4%), YaSing Investment Co. (44.6%), Honam (10%), and Daeil (1%).

YaSing Group is the largest CPE producer in China. With the total CPE capacity of 110,000 ton/year by its two subsidiaries ? YaSing Chemical and YaSing-Lotte, it accounts for about 70% of CPE market (around 150,000 ton/year) in China.

YaSing Chemical operates a 70,000 ton/year CPE plant, while YaSing-Lotte - a 75:25 jv between YaSing Group and Honam PetroChem, is operates a 40,000 ton/year CPE plant.

Yasing-Lotte is also building a second 60,000 ton/year CPE project in the same site, which is expected to start up in Aug. 2008. After that, YaSing
fs total CPE capacity could reach 170,000 ton/year.

In 2007, YaSing produced CPE 106 kt in total, PVC 39 kt, Caustic Soda 183 kt and Chlorine 127 kt.

CPE is a synthetic Polymer material by chlorination of high-density polyethylene (HDPE).


Platts@2008/11/12

S Korea's Lotte Daesan, Honam to complete merger January 2

South Korean petrochemical affiliates Honam Petrochemical and Lotte Daesan Petrochemical are slated to fully merge by January 2, 2009, Honam's spokesman Son-Joo Kim said Wednesday.

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2009/1/5 Platts

Honam Petrochemical completes merger with Lotte Daesan

South Korea's Honam Petrochemical and Lotte Daesan Petrochemical have formally completed their merger, and began their first day of trading as Honam Petrochemical on Monday, spokesman Son-Joo Kim said.
The companies initiated a partial merger in June 2007 by joining their sales, marketing and purchasing divisions.

The Lotte Group has a 57% share in Honam, with the remaining 43% of shares floating free on the Korea Stock Exchange. Lotte Daesan was not listed on the KSE.


Oct 21, 2010 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX)

Korea's Honam eyes plan to build ethylene plant in Indonesia

South Korea's petrochemical company Honam Petrochemical Corp is studying plans to build an ethylene factory in Indonesia next year.
The project with a capacity of 450,000 tons a year is estimated to cost US$500 million, the Indonesian Association of Aromatics, Olefin and Plastic Industries said.
Honam will visit the country to conduct due diligence studies later this month, association secretary general Fajar Budiyono said.

The country's only producer of ethylene is PT Chandra Asri, which has an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons.

Budiyono said Honam has to rely on imports for naphtha as local producers could not provide enough supply of the basic material.


2011/4/1

Honam Petrochemical to Build U.S. Plastics-Production Plant

Honam Petrochemical Corp., South Korea
fs fourth-largest petrochemicals maker, said it plans to build a plant in the U.S. to produce plastics for auto and electronics parts.

A wholly owned U.S. unit,
HPM Alabama Corp., aims to complete the construction of the plant in Auburn City, Alabama, by the end of this year, the unit of Lotte Group said in an e- mailed statement today.

The plant will have an annual output capacity of 15,000 metric tons of plastics such as long-chip and long-fiber thermoplastics when it begins full operation in 2013, according to the statement. Long-fiber thermoplastics are used to make auto and electronic parts.

Honam Petrochemical Corporation is to establish a manufacturing facility for injection moldable fiber reinforced polypropylene.

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July 17 2013 @   

Hyundai oilbank, Lotte chemical initial deal on plant construction

Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea`s fourth-largest refiner, and Lotte Chemical Corp., a South Korean petrochemicals maker, said Wednesday that they initialed a deal to build a plant in the southwestern part of the country.

2012/12 ŒΞ“μΞ–ϋ‰»Šw‚ͺKP Chemical‚ƍ‡•ΉALotte Chemical‚Ι‰όΜ

If the deal is finalized, the two companies will jointly spend 1 trillion won (US$900 million) to build the plant, which will produce 1 million tons of mixed xylene and 1 million tons of light straight-run naphtha in Seosan, a coastal city 151 kilometers south of Seoul.

Mixed xylene is used as a solvent for paint and pesticide, while light straight-run naphtha is used as raw material for petrochemicals.

The plant is scheduled to be fully functional in the second half of 2016.
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