DETROIT-Phillips 66 Co. of Bartlesville, Okla., will increase its high density polyethylene capacity by 22 percent by 1997 as part of a debottlenecking program. The streamlining will provide new resin for auto fuel tanks, Kevin Hendryx, eastern regional sales manager for Phillips' Marlex PE resins, said at the SAE International Congress & Exposition, held in Detroit.
Hendryx said the new fuel tank resin, Marlex C579 HDPE, was to have been introduced several years ago, but was delayed by the 1989 blast that leveled Phillips' Houston Chemical Complex.
Separately, through debottlenecking Phillips will increase its production capacity for polyphenylene sulfide resins by 15 percent during the next 18 months, to nearly 21 million pounds.
