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The technical upgrade project for Dongming Zhongyou’s 100,000-ton-per-year production of vinyl polyolefin elastomer (E-POE) was successfully registered. On February 19, 2025, Dongming Zhongyou Fuel Petrochemical Co., Ltd.’s project for producing 100,000 tons per year of vinyl polyolefin elastomer (E-POE) was approved as a corporate technical upgrade investment project! On November 18, 2024, the handover of Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group’s 5,000-ton capacity vinyl polyolefin elastomer (EPOE) production facility was completed, a production contract for 100,000 tons per year of EPOE was signed, and a strategic cooperation framework agreement for new technologies in polyolefin materials was established. The cooperation on the world’s first 100,000-tonne EPOE industrial production facility will strongly propel China’s high-end polyolefin industry to new heights. Once completed, the facility is expected to foster the coordinated development of upstream and downstream industries, generating significant economic benefits and numerous job opportunities, while also contributing to energy conservation and emission reduction through the use of environmentally friendly new materials. Vinyl polyolefin elastomer (EPOE) can be produced using only ethylene as a raw material; there is no need to employ octene (an α-olefin) monomer to manufacture EPOE. Taking toughened polypropylene as an example, only 1/3 of the amount currently used of polyolefin elastomers is required to achieve the same level of toughness, offering a much better cost-performance ratio compared to commercially available polyolefin elastomers. Our country possesses independent technology for EPOE. Based on entirely original nickel-based catalyst technology, Zhongke Keler has developed a breakthrough EPOE process that enables the production of POE using only ethylene as the single raw material, along with domestically produced additives and conventional polymerization equipment and processes. The production cost of EPOE is much lower than that of traditional ethylene and α-olefin polymerization methods, and its product performance has been verified by numerous manufacturers of photovoltaic film materials and automotive modification materials.