The new furnace will use Technip’s proprietary SMK gas cracking technology which can crack both ethane and propane feedstock. It will let Kemya to increase its ethylene and propylene production by as much as 110,000 tons per year, Technip claims.

The entire package will include Technip’s Spyro yield prediction package, GK6 furnace technology for liquid cracking and the Progressive Separation process for the ethylene separation section of the furnace.

The project will be on a lump sum turn key basis, according to Technip, and the furnace is due start-up in the first half of 2006.