BP & Nova share PE catalyst technology. (In Brief).BP in the U.K. and Nova Chemicals NOVA Chemicals is a leading chemical company jointly headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, and the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suburb of Moon Township. It was founded in 1954. The corporation's chemical assets are divided into two divisions: Olefins/Polyolefins and Styrenics. Corp., Pittsburgh, have licensed each other's catalyst technologies for advanced polyethylene resins. BP licensed its Innovene metallocene technology portfolio to Nova for use in PE manufacturing. In turn, Nova granted BP rights to use and sublicense its proprietary single-site catalysts. The two companies will cooperate on future development of metallocene and single-site catalyst technology for gas-phase polyethylene production. Any new catalyst developments will be used by both firms for PE production and will be available for license to others. BP's Innovene technology produces high-performance mLLDPE resins for cast and blown films. Nova has a new non-metallocene, single-site catalyst that shows promise in LLDPE LLDPE Linear Low Density Polyethylene , VLDPE VLDPE Very Low Density Polyethylene , and MDPE MDPE Medium Density Polyethylene MDPE Mobile Dual-Phase Extraction (technique for environmental cleaning) MDPE Mobile Dual-Phase Extraction (USA) MDPE Maximum Permissible Dose Equivalent . BP and Nova have a separate agreement, signed last year, to develop and commercialize gas-phase use of Nova's advanced Ziegler-Natta catalyst A Ziegler-Natta catalyst is a reagent or a mixture of reagents used in the production of polymers of 1-alkenes (α-olefins). Ziegler-Natta catalysts are typically based on titanium compounds and organometallic aluminium compounds, for example triethylaluminium, (C2 , called Novacat T. The catalyst is used to make Nova's brand-new Advanced Sclairtech LLDPE by a solution process (see PT, June '02, p. 27). |
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