1. Overview
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2. 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.

3. Who is Qenos? 830 employees Integrated olefins & polyolefins
Australia’s only producer of polyethylene
Annual turnover $800M

4. Altona Site
Olefins
Plastics
Resins

5. Qenos Altona - Post Ethane / LPG Conversion
Qenos Plastics
PE to hundreds of customers for many industries
Esso / BHPB
Longford/LIP
Qenos Resins
Ethane
Qenos
SCAL-2
SCAL-1
Olefins
Ethylene
Top up propane
or butane
Refinery
Gas
Propane
Mobil Altona
Refinery
Butane
Propylene to Basell
Pygas to Export / Huntsman

6. Botany Site Port Botany Huntsman Alkatuff Alkathene Basell
On site storage
Olefines

7. Qenos Botany Alkatuff® Alkathene® Qenos Olefines Exports Customers
Ethylene
Polyethylene to hundreds of customers
for many industries
Cooper Basin
South Australia
Ethylene
Alkathene®
Ethane
pipeline
Qenos
Olefines
Mixed C3
stream
Ethylene
Exports
Kurnell Refinery
This is a drawing of the interlinkages between the various Altona Petrochemical complex members
Ethylene
Customers
Propylene

8. 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

9. 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
On the left is a picture of the furnaces at SCAL-2
On the right ...

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

11. Qenos Resins Manufacture high density polyethylene
Low pressure slurry reactors
HDPE is used in containers, pails and pipes

12. Some Products…

13. 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.
On the left is a picture of the furnaces at SCAL-2
On the right ...