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Platts 2005/1/25
Hungary's TVK new ethylene
cracker reaches 100% capacity
The new Olefin-2 plant at Hungary's Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat is now
operating at full capacity, a TVK source told Platts, Tuesday.
The 620,000 mt/yr ethylene cracker, constructed by TVK under a
license from Linde, began production in the last week of
December.
Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat
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Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Rt is one
of the major chemical complexes and sole polyolefins producer in
Hungary and represents more than 20% of petrochemical capacities
in Central Europe. With its high quality products, the Company
has a leading role on domestic polyethylene and polypropylene
markets, while being a reliable producer and supplier to a number
of Western customers as well.
The predecessor to today's Company, Tiszavideki Vegyi Kombinat,
established in 1953, changed its name to Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat
after commissioning its first production unit, a paint plant in
1961.
The aim of the then government was to speed up industrial
development in the provinces and to create new jobs in the
north-eastern region of the country. This political decision
resulted in a new town, Tiszaujvaros, on the Tisza river. The
history of the town, with a population of 18 thousand today, has
undergone a social development that well reflects the success
story TVK has produced in industry in the last few decades.
TIPOLEN - low density polyethylene
Tipolen is the trade mark of the low density polyethylene grades manufactured by Tiszai Vegyi Kombinát Rt., Tiszaújváros. Low density polyethylene grades (LDPE) are produced by high pressure polymerisation in ICI autoclave and BASF tube reactors.
TIPELIN - middle and high density polyethylene
Tipelin is a registered trade mark for medium and high density polyethylene grades manufactured by TVK Rt. TVK medium and high density grades are produced by continuous polymerization using low-pressure catalytic process under licenceof Phillips Petroleum Co. The density range of co-polymers produced with hexene-1 co-monomer and homopolymer grades is: 0.934-0.964 g/cm3
TIPPLEN - polypropylene products
Tipplen is the registered trade mark for isostatic polypropylene produced by the Polymer Business Unit of TVK Rt. Our products mix includes homopolymers, impact copolymers and random copolymers with the exception of terpolymers.