Polymer Grade for Gas Tank Localized in Iran

Polymer Grade for Gas Tank Localized in Iran
(Saturday, September 28, 2019) 16:12

TEHRAN (NIPNA) – Iran’s Aria Aasol Petrochemical Company has acquired the savvy to produce HBM4261A grade which is used for making IBC gas tanks.

Amir Hossein Bahraini, Managing Director of Aria Sasol Polymer Company, said on Wednesday that a new product from the heavy polyethylene group had been produced by the company for the first time in Iran.

He said the item was unveiled on the sidelines of the 13th Iran Plast International Exhibition in Tehran. The 4-day fair wrapped up on Wednesday.

Bahraini said industrial production of the new heavy density polyethylene grade had rendered Iran needless of importing the item.

“Aria Sasol is the first Iranian company to produce this valuable item in accordance with international standards on an industrial scale.”

The item is widely used for production of car tanks, high quality plastic barrels as well as one-tonne barrels of chemicals (IBC-Tank) and has all the features tantamount to BASL products.

The official said that there was a 50,000-ton market for the product in Iran, adding that the grade was vigorously sought after in international markets as well.

He added: “Along with creating more value added and completing the product’s value chain, a project has also begun for construction of a new polyethylene unit with an investment of $300 million and a production capacity of 300,000 tonnes per year, which is expected to become operational by February 2022. When the project comes online, the plant’s production capacity will reach 2 million tons per year.

Aria Sasol Polymer Co., with a production capacity of 1.7 million tonnes of ethylene, C3 and polyethylene (light, medium and heavy) is an Iranian polymer giant based in Pars Special Economic Zone.

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