Karpatneftekhim resumed production

The largest petrochemical plant in Ukraine, Karpatneftekhim (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region), on June 9, resumed work after five years of downtime, the company’s press service said. The whole production complex will be put into operation in the middle of June, and in July it should reach full capacity – 250 thousand tons of ethylene in annual […]

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Lviv at night erect garbage barricades

On the night of June 9, residents of Lviv took out garbage bags on the roadway and blocked traffic on several highways. Because of the garbage he stopped traffic on Gorodotskaya Street – participants of the action were transferred to the bridge packs with waste from nearby container sites. The municipal services managed to remove […]

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Processing of polyethylene and polypropylene

Due to the presence of tertiary carbon atoms, polypropylene is sensitive to the action of oxygen, especially at elevated temperatures, which makes it more prone to aging than polyethylene and copolymers of ethylene with propylene. Therefore, during processing, stabilizers are added to the polypropylene. Compared with polyethylene, polypropylene has higher strength, heat resistance, oxidation resistance […]

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