New POE Supplier Starts Up Plant in China

Liaoning Dingjide Petrochemical has told MLT Analytics (MLTA) that it is in the "troubleshooting phase" of startup of its 200,000-tonnes/year polyolefin elastomer and plastomer (POE/POP) plant located in the Dalian Changxing Island National Petrochemical Industrial Park, Liaoning Province, China, with commercial operation slated for by the end of October 2025. Speaking to MLTA at the K Show in Dusseldorf, Germany, Head of Overseas Marketing Jason Sun noted that his company had licensed production technology from a party that he declined to identify.

The company is also planning a second phase on investment, with a similar scale POE/POP plant scheduled to start up in 2027. Dingjide's Sun, however, concedes that start-up of this plant may be delayed.

Dingjide's POE/POP product slate includes grades with densities ranging from 0.862 to 0.902 for applications including solar encapsulation film, footwear, impact modification, and wire & cable. The company also manufactures 1-hexene and 1-octene comonomers.

Dingjide is also a leading manufacturer of polypropylene (PP) catalysts and recently announced a toll manufacturing agreement with PP process licensor Lummus Technology to supply the latter's catalysts for its Novolen production technology.

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