W. R. Grace & Co. announced the successful start-up of two 400 KTA UNIPOL® PP process technology lines at Oriental Energy in Ningbo, China. This brings the total UNIPOL® PP operating capacity in China to more than 6.3 million tons per annum in the last twelve years making homopolymer, random and impact copolymers to serve the growing market for high performance plastics in China. As of December 13, 2021, the company expects another 2 million tons per annum to come on stream in the next few years from UNIPOL® PP Process Technology in China.