28-01-2025

LyondellBasell selected by Indian Oil Corporation for advanced HDPE technology

LyondellBasell, the world's largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today announced that Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, has selected its Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process technology for a new 500 kiloton per year high-density polyethylene facility in Paradip, India.

The new HDPE plant will be integrated into IOCL's Paradip complex, one of India's largest integrated refinery-petrochemical complexes. Located on the eastern coast of India in the state of Odisha, the Paradip facility plays a strategic role in serving the growing polymer market in the Indian subcontinent. The complex, which includes a 15 million tonnes per year refinery, will benefit from the addition of this state-of-the-art HDPE unit to its existing petrochemical operations.

"This collaboration exemplifies our commitment to building long lasting partnerships that address our customers' unique needs while contributing to global solutions," said Patrik Schneider, Director of Global Licensing at LYB. " The low-pressure slurry HDPE process is already well known to the Indian market and the resins are much appreciated by converters across all sectors."

This marks the eighth technology license agreement between LYB and IOCL, further fostering the relationship between the two companies. In total, more than 2,500 (kta) of polyolefin capacity have now been licensed, with the other licenses having been installed at IOCL's Paradip but also at the Panipat sites. IOCL not only operates Hostalen ACP process technology but is also a major Spheripol PP process technology operator in India.

The new plant will utilize LYB Avant Z501 and Avant Z509-1 catalysts to produce a comprehensive range of multi-modal HDPE products. The Hostalen ACP process enables the use of a single catalyst family  based on Ziegler chemistry to produce the full range of resins, thereby avoiding the production of lower-value transition products.

The Hostalen ACP process technology produces high-performance, multi-modal HDPE resins that set industry standards for stiffness-to-toughness balance, impact resistance, and stress cracking resistance. These advanced materials serve critical applications in infrastructure pipes but also sets a standard in  film, blow molding, and caps & closure manufacturing, offering significant processing advantages to end-users.

New licensees can take advantage of LYB in-house expertise of continuous production improvement, sustainable product development and catalyst knowhow, by optionally joining our Technical Service program.

In addition to the Hostalen ACP process technology, the LyondellBasell portfolio of licensed polyolefin processes and catalysts includes:
- Spheripol – The leading PP process technology with more than 35 million tons of licensed capacity with globally recognized quality grades with leading monomer consumption and investment costs to make it the technology of choice.
- Spherizone – The breakthrough multi-zone circulating reactor provides a unique and innovative platform to manufacture polypropylene products with novel architecture and enhanced properties.
- Metocene PP – Innovative add-on technology produces specialty polypropylene products using single-site catalyst systems.
- Lupotech – The market leader on high pressure technology offers, with its high conversion rates and effective heat recovery system, the lowest operating and investment costs for the production of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymers
- Avant – Advanced Ziegler-Natta, including non-phthalate, chromium and metallocene catalysts for entire range of polyolefin production.