Univation building catalyst plant in China

Univation Technologies LLC is building a new polyethylene catalyst manufacturing facility in China with a scheduled 2011 start-up. The factory is located in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province and will produce UCATT J High Productivity Catalyst, which is used in the production of a broad range of linear low and high density polyethylene products. China has more than 20 of Univation''s Unipol PE process reactors in operation or under construction. The China plant will meet the growing needs for licensees of the Unipol PE gas-phase process. Univation, a joint venture between ExxonMobil Chemical Co. and Dow Chemical Co. aims to provide UCAT conventional catalysts, XCAT metallocene catalysts, and Prodigy bimodal catalysts from several facilities located in North America. www.univation.comsneakers