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Qenos • Qenos is a petrochemical company owned by China National Chemical Corporation (Chem. China) • Qenos has manufacturing sites in Altona, Victoria and Botany, New South Wales.
Who is Qenos? • • 830 employees Integrated olefins & polyolefins Australia’s only producer of polyethylene Annual turnover $800 M
Altona Site Olefins Plastics Resins
Qenos Altona - Post Ethane / LPG Conversion Qenos Plastics Esso / BHPB Longford/LIP Ethane Top up propane or butane Refinery Gas Mobil Altona Refinery Qenos Resins Qenos SCAL-2 PE to hundreds of customers for many industries Ethylene SCAL-1 Olefins Propane Butane Propylene to Basell Pygas to Export / Huntsman
Botany Site Port Botany Huntsman Alkathene Alkatuff On site storage Basell Olefines
Qenos Botany Cooper Basin Ethylene Alkatuff® Ethylene Alkathene® South Australia Polyethylene to hundreds of customers for many industries Ethane pipeline Mixed C 3 stream Kurnell Refinery Qenos Olefines Ethylene Exports Ethylene Propylene Customers
Qenos Botany • Olefines manufactures ethylene • Alkatuff and Alkathene plants manufacture polyethylene • Alkathene ® is low density polyethylene • Alkatuff ® is linear low density polyethylene • LDPE and LLDPE are used in plastic films, coating layers, toys and tanks
Qenos Olefins • Main product is ethylene • Feedstocks are ethane and LPG from Bass Strait • Furnaces are used to crack the feedstock at up to 900 deg. C • Distillation is the main separation process
Qenos Plastics • Manufacture high density polyethylene • High density polyethylene (HDPE) - made in low pressure process • HDPE is used in milk bottles, containers and pipes
Qenos Resins • Manufacture high density polyethylene • Low pressure slurry reactors • HDPE is used in containers, pails and pipes
Some Products…
Qenos Technical Centre • The Qenos Technical Centre is the premier polyolefins laboratory organisation in Australia. • It provides a highly capable, modern and customerfocussed facility to ensure that the capability and quality of products are maintained.