<article><p class="lead">Austrian petrochemicals group Borealis and Finnish refining company Neste are collaborating to produce polypropylene (PP) from renewable, bio-based propane feedstock.</p><p>Borealis plans to use renewable propane, produced at Neste's Rotterdam refinery from waste oils, as feedstock in its propane-dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Kallo, Belgium to produce propylene from the end of this year. This will, in turn, be used in its PP facilities in Kallo and Beringen, also in Belgium. The renewable or bio component of the PP production will be measured and tracked using a certified mass-balance approach.</p><p>The companies say it will be the first time that renewable propane dehydrogenation is carried out on an industrial scale. Waste oil used in Neste's NEXBTL process includes used cooking oil, animal and fish fat from food processing and residues from vegetable oil processing.</p><p>Neste also has a collaboration with petrochemicals company LyondellBasell on bio-based plastics. The companies announced in June that they had <a href="https://direct.argusmedia.com/newsandanalysis/article/1923637">produced bio-based polyethylene and polypropylene on a commercial scale</a> using Neste's renewable hydrocarbons as feedstock in LyondellBasell's steam cracker at Wesseling in Germany.</p></article>
