Suzano Petchem

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Suzano is a Brazilian producer of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and synthetic elastomers. Currently the company has partial ownership of Polibrasil, Rio Polimeros, Petroflex, and Politeno. As part of this project with IFC, Suzano aims to hold 100 percent ownership of Polibrasil and conduct debottlenecking and expansion projects including:- Polibrasil. Duque de Caxias complex:Increase capacity from 200 kt/yr to 300 kt/yr, add a third propylene storage sphere,Build a sea terminal to optimize the logistics of raw material supply,Polibrasil. - Maua complex:in a first stage, a capacity increase from 300 kt/yr to 360 kt/yr and, at a later stage, a capacity increase to 450 kt/yr.Polibrasil is the leading company in Latin America in the production of polypropylene, a resin widely used in the manufacture of components, domestic appliances, and packages for the automotive, food, electronic, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, textile and civil construction industries. Polibrasil’s industrial complex consists of:Three facilities, located in existing petrochemical complexes, producing polypropylene resins with a combined annual production capacity of 625 thousand tons, as follows;Duque de Caxias, State of Rio de Janeiro. The plant is located in the Duque de Caxias petrochemical complex at 17-km from the city of Duque de Caxias and 40-km from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Using LIPP technology, it has a production capacity of 200 thousand tons per year. The technology used has the lowest energy cost among the polypropylene manufacturing technologies used internationally.- Maua, State of Sao Paulo. This facility is located in the petrochemical complex in Maua in the State of Sao Paulo, at 4-km from the city of Maua and 28-km from the city of Sao Paulo. The site has an area of 196,000 square meters and 29,900 square meters constructed. There is an urban area about 500 meters and a rural area 100 meters distant from the site. The plant has world-size production scale of 300 thousand tons per year, using latest generation Spheripol technology. The production unit is supported by final product packaging, palletizing, storage and delivery activities. The Maua facility stands out for its logistics platform, the largest in Latin America. Its flexibility allows distribution in bags on pallets, big bags or bulk.- Camacari, State of Bahia. Inaugurated in 1978, this facility, located in the Camacari Petrochemical Complex at 8-km from the city of Camacari, has an installed capacity of 125 thousand tons per year, and produces homopolymers and heterophasic copolymers. The catalytic system was upgraded in 2003 to reduce production costs and to significantly improve the quality of manufactured products. A facility producing polypropylene compounds with an annual production capacity of 24 thousand tons located in Camacari. This plant will soon be closed down since a new polypropylene compounds production facility will be built, owned and managed by others in Pindamonhangaba, Sao Paulo. - Rio Polimeros (Riopol). This facility is being built in the Duque de Caxias Petrochemical Complex in the State of Rio de Janeiro and it is expected to be operational in the third quarter of 2005. This project includes the implementation of the first Brazilian fully integrated petrochemical complex to use natural gas fractions as petrochemical raw-material to manufacture ethylene. It is also the first integrated petrochemical project in Brazil producing both ethylene and polyethylene. The plant is comprised of two units – (a) an ethane and propane pyrolysis unit, with installed capacity of 520 thousand ton/year of ethylene, and (b) a unit producing high density (HDPE) and low density (LLDPE) polyethylene, with installed capacity of 540 thousand ton/year. - Petroflex. The largest producer in Latin America, and sixth in the world, Petroflex holds today approximately 80% of market share in the Brazilian elastomers market. It has 3 industrial units: - In the Duque de Caxias petrochemical complex in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Petroflex has its largest plant, with a production capacity of 196.0 thousand tons per year of ESBR, 10.0 thousand tons per year of latex, and 4.0 thousand tons per year of PBLH; - In Triunfo, State of Rio Grande do Sul, it is located the newest and with the most modern equipment plant producing 76.0 thousand tons per year of 16 types of rubber. The Triunfo facility is the only one to produce NBR rubber, used to make engine hoses and powder rubber, widely used in the footwear industry, and - In the city of Cabo, State of Pernambuco, it has a multipurpose facility with installed capacity of 125 kt/yr. This facility is the only one in Latin America that produces BR-alto cis, a synthetic rubber used to produce the green tire (ecological tire). Petroflex has a combined installed capacity of 411 thousand tons/year.). - Politeno. Politeno, the third largest polyethylene producer in Brazil, has two polyethylene plants with a combined installed capacity of 360 kt/yr. Both plants are located in the Camacari petrochemical complex located in the State of Bahia. It produces polyethylene [LDPE (low density polyethylene), LLDPE (linear low density polyethylene), MDPE (medium density polyethylene), LMDPE (linear medium density polyethylene) and HDPE (high density polyethylene)] widely employed in the bagging, pots, bottles, and domestic appliances industries. It also produces EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer), used for the manufacturing of foam for footwear soles and adhesives.