Polypropylene Plant Construction

• Client: Epsilon Products Company
  
• Location: Marcus Hook, PA
  
• Scope: Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction
  
• Total Installed Cost: $80 Million
  
• Completed: 1991

Rust Constructors provided construction management for a 120-million-pound-per-year polypropylene unit using a gas-phase, fluid-bed process. The plant included two 24-foot-diameter by 140-foot-tall homo-random-block copolymer reactors. Other major process equipment included feedgas preparation, recycle gas purification, a resin degassing vessel, and extrusion/pelletizing equipment.