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The 300,000-ton/year EPOE project of Dongming Petrochemical is set to begin construction. On February 24th, Shandong province held a meeting to focus on project development, increasing investment, and promoting economic growth, as well as a meeting to advance the construction of key projects for high-quality development in the spring of 2025; Heze city and its various counties and districts participated in these meetings through separate venues. Among them, the 18 projects that are starting construction in Dongming County this time have a total investment of 28.1 billion yuan. There are 4 projects with an investment of over 3 billion yuan each: the 300,000-ton vinyl polyolefin elastomer project of Dongming Petrochemical, the CNPC Fuel crude oil storage facility project, the 2 billion-square-meter ultra-thin high-strength diaphragm project of Shandong Chenlong Linlong Technology, and the 650,000-ton propylene oxide co-production project of CNPC Fuel, which is where the sub-venue is located. The 300,000-ton per year vinyl polyolefin elastomer (E-POE) project of Dongming Petrochemical is backed by research and development of high-end polyolefin catalysts as well as the creation of advanced polyolefin materials. Through the action of unique nickel-based catalysts, this process enables the direct production of polyolefin elastomers, filling the gap in the world regarding the production of E-POE using ethylene as the sole raw material. It breaks the foreign technological monopoly, representing a world-first innovation and being at the international forefront in terms of technology. Dongming Petrochemical’s E-POE project: On November 18, 2024, Dongming Petrochemical completed the world’s first pilot plant for the production of vinyl polyolefin elastomers at a capacity of 5,000 tons per year. The facility has now begun producing products, which is of great significance for breaking foreign monopolies over POE technology and achieving full domestic production of E-POE products in China. The E-POE project with an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons that is set to start operations soon will also be the world’s first industrial-scale E-POE production facility. On the same day, Dongming Petrochemical signed a production contract for 100,000 tons per year of E-POE, as well as a strategic cooperation framework agreement for new technologies in polyolefin materials. Zhongke Keler, Beiyou Engineering, and Dongming Petrochemical signed the certificates of completion for the project, the technology transfer agreements, as well as the cooperation framework agreements. This agreement will accelerate the development of a technological demonstration project for Dongming Petrochemical’s full industrial chain covering \"crude oil – ethylene – high-end polyolefins such as EPOE\". Aiming at the construction of \"3×100,000-ton E-POE plants, the world’s first million-ton UPC plant, and various new high-end polyolefin products\", efforts will continue to be made to advance key core technologies related to polyolefin elastomers and new high-end polyolefin materials. New products and grades will be developed to achieve development in the directions of high-end features, differentiation, and customization, thereby driving technological innovation in China’s petrochemical industry. Zhongke Keler’s E-POE technology: Dongming Petrochemical has always placed great emphasis on technological innovation and the transformation and upgrading of its industry. The E-POE technology is developed by Dongming Petrochemical in collaboration with top-tier teams including Professor Chen Changle from the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. Backed by research in high-performance polyolefin catalysts and the development of advanced polyolefin materials, this technology utilizes unique nickel-based catalysts to directly produce polyolefin elastomers. The successful development of this technology has broken the foreign monopoly on POE production techniques and overcome the restrictions imposed by foreign countries on China’s supply of high-carbon α-olefins such as octene, thereby accelerating the localization process of POE products in China and guiding its chemical industry toward higher and more ambitious goals. Hefei Zhongke Keler New Materials Co., Ltd. was established in 2022. Backed by the research group led by Professor Chen Changle from the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of Science and Technology of China, as well as institutions such as the Institute of Material Science and Information Technology at Anhui University, it is a company whose goals are the development of high-end polyolefin catalysts and the research and development of high-end polyolefin materials. Based on entirely original nickel-based catalyst technology, Zhongke Keler has developed a breakthrough E-POE process that enables the production of POE using ethylene as the sole raw material, along with domestically produced additives and conventional polymerization equipment and processes. Its products include polyolefin elastomers, cycloolefin copolymers, and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. At present, China’s POE products rely mainly on imports. According to authoritative data, from 2017 to 2023, China’s import volume increased from 224,400 tons to 860,000 tons, with a yearly compound growth rate of over 25%. Against this backdrop, the localization of POE has become urgent. The \"14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Raw Materials Industry\" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in conjunction with the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Natural Resources emphasizes that the petrochemical industry should advance the research and development of high-end polyolefin products such as metallocene-based ones ； The China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation also stated in the \"14th Five-Year Plan Guidelines for the Development of New Chemical Materials Industries\" that it is necessary to focus on improving the domestic production capacity for high-end polyolefin plastics.