In the past year, Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart/Germany, received the order for the biggest system worldwide for compounding and pelletizing of Polypropylene (PP). This system is designed for a throughput rate of 55 to 60 t/h, which corresponds to the production capacity of a modern world-scale plant, and consists of:
- a twin-screw MEGAcompounder ZSK 380 Mc powered by a motor with more than 14 MW,
- an automatic non-stop screen pack changer as well as
- the largest PP underwater pelletizer with an intensively heated die plate.
This compounding and pelletizing system will be installed in Plock/Poland, the biggest Polish petrochemical site. The complete PP plant will be erected and operated by Basell Orlen Polyolefins, a joint venture of PKN Orlen S.A. and Basell Polyolefins, the world’s largest producer of Polypropylene and the licensor of many polymerization technologies and catalysts.
Commissioning/start-up of the compounding and pelletizing system is scheduled for early 2005.
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