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Saudi Kayan starts commercial operations at most plants

Petrochemicals

Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company, a unit of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), announced that it started commercial operations at most of its plants in Jubail Industrial City.

Production capacity

Saudi Kayan has an annual production capacity of over 4mn tonnes of petrochemical and chemical products including aminoethanols, aminomethyls, dimethylformamide, choline chloride, dimethylethanol.

Plants

The company said in a statement that it had started production at its polypropylene plant with an annual capacity of 350,000 tonnes;  400,000-tonne polyethylene plant; 260,000-tonne per year polycarbonate plant and its 566,000-tonne ethylene glycol plant.