AtoFina Upgrades Bayport HDPE Plant.AtoFina Petrochemicals, Inc., Houston, recently completed a three-year program to expand and upgrade its Bayport, Texas, HDPE HDPE abbr. high-density polyethylene plant. Its capacity has been increased by 10%, or 40 million lb/yr. New control systems and compounding equipment are said to significantly improve product quality and consistency. One major improvement is extremely low gel counts, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the company. The plant makes bimodal bi·mod·al adj. 1. Having or exhibiting two contrasting modes or forms: "American supermarket shopping shows bimodal behavior HMW-HDPE and unimodal Adj. 1. unimodal - having a single mode statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters specialty resins for film and agricultural pipe. AtoFina is developing new film and pipe grades with enhanced properties and processability. |
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