Overview

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• Overview
• 2006

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Qenos

• Qenos is a petrochemical company owned by China
  National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina)
• Qenos has manufacturing sites in Altona, Victoria
  and Botany, New South Wales.

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Who is Qenos?

• 830 employees
• Integrated olefins polyolefins
• Australias only producer of polyethylene
• Annual turnover 800M

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Altona Site
Olefins
Plastics
Resins
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Qenos Altona - Post Ethane / LPG Conversion
Qenos Plastics
PE to hundreds of customers for many
industries
Esso / BHPB Longford/LIP
Qenos Resins
Qenos SCAL-2 SCAL-1 Olefins
Ethane
Ethylene
Top up propane or butane
Refinery Gas
Propane
Mobil Altona Refinery
Butane
Propylene to Basell
Pygas to Export / Huntsman
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Botany Site
Port Botany
Huntsman
Alkatuff
Alkathene
Basell
On site storage
Olefines
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Qenos Botany
Alkatuff
Ethylene
Polyethylene to hundreds of customers
for many industries
Ethylene
Cooper Basin South Australia
Alkathene
Ethane pipeline
Qenos Olefines
Mixed C3 stream
Ethylene
Exports
Kurnell Refinery
Ethylene
Customers
Propylene
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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

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Qenos Olefins

• Main product is ethylene
• Feedstocks are ethane and LPG from Bass Strait
• Furnaces are used to crack the feedstock at up to
  900degC
• Distillation is the main separation process

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Qenos Plastics

• Manufacture high density polyethylene
• High density polyethylene (HDPE) - made in low
  pressure process
• HDPE is used in milk bottles, containers and
  pipes

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Qenos Resins

• Manufacture high density polyethylene
• Low pressure slurry reactors
• HDPE is used in containers, pails and pipes

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Some Products
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Qenos Technical Centre

• The Qenos Technical Centre is the premier
  polyolefins laboratory organisation in Australia.
• It provides a highly capable, modern and
  customer-focussed facility to ensure that the
  capability and quality of products are maintained.