Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc., headquartered in
Houston, Texas, produces polypropylene, polyethylene,
polystyrene, styrene, base chemicals and transportation
fuels.
With sales of $8 billion in 2009, the company employs
about 1,700 people in the U.S. and has manufacturing
facilities in Texas and Louisiana as well as a research and
technology facility in La Porte, Texas and a refinery in Port
Arthur, Texas.
Total
Petrochemicals
USA,
Inc.’s
La
Porte
Polypropylene Plant, which has an annual capacity of
2.4 billion pounds per year, is the largest polypropylene
facility in the world. It is a low production cost facility and
full range polypropylene supplier with speciality products
to support customer needs.
The adjacent La Porte Research and Technology
Center was the first to produce commercial syndiotactic
polypropylene and among the first to produce isotactic
polypropylene using metallocene-based catalysts with
a broad crystallinity and molecular weight range. It also
developed a broad product range in film application for
PP (from BOPP to heat seal layer), unique products for
spinning applications and extrusion thermoforming of PP,
very low molecular weight PP for melt blown application
and ICP for high speed injection molding.
Corporate Office USA
PO Box 674411
Houston, Texas 77267-4411
800.344.3462
PAF:IDEA10Brochure..indd:April2010
Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. is the American
entity of Total Petrochemicals, headquartered in
Brussels, Belgium. As part of Total SA, the world’s
fifth largest integrated petroleum company, Total
Petrochemicals gains extensively from integration within
refining. Based on this industrial rationale, the company
operates large-scale facilities around the world, and in
particular the United States and Europe.
Research and Technology Center
PO Box 1200
Deer Park, Texas 77536
281.884.7500
Web: www.totalpetrochemicalsusa.com
Total Petrochemicals PP For Nonwovens at IDEA10
Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc.
Polypropylene
Polypropylene
Polypropylene
resins for
resins for
resins for
SPUNBOND NONWOVENS
STAPLE FIBER NONWOVENS
MELT BLOWN NONWOVENS
MFR
MFR
5
15
5
M 3661(14)
Metallocene,
high speed
spinning, very
high tenacity
nonwovens
Outstanding spinning for spun lace,
needlepunch, and
thermal bond
Good spinning
for fine denier
Excellent spinning
performance,
controlled
rheology,
higher tenacity
nonwovens
Excellent spinning
performance,
controlled rheology, standard
spunbond resin
M 3766(23)
3764(25)
25
M 3865(31)
3866(35)
35
MFR
Metallocene,
outstanding
spinning
performance,
clean processing,
very fine fiber
size, light weight
nonwovens
Metallocene,
outstanding
performance,
very fine fiber
size, very high
spinning rates
100
3662(10)
15
M 3661(14)
Coarse fiber size,
base for direct
peroxide addition
Metallocene,
very high
tenacity
3762(18)
M 3766(23)
Good spinning
for fine fiber
3860x
3764(25)
25
Metallocene,
high tenacity,
outstanding
spinning, fine
denier
3962
35
1300
Pelletized resin,
TBA free
Ultra-fine
fiber size,
high loft
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