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Research & Development

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The Total Petrochemicals Research and Technology Centers in La Porte, Texas, France, Spain, UK and Singapore are dedicated to keeping you and Total Petrochemicals at the forefront of technology advancement in the polystyrene industry.

Total Petrochemicals
's Research and Technology Centers represent fully integrated research and development, pilot plant and applications testing facilities, equipped with the industry's most sophisticated hardware. The Centers are focused on two important areas. First, to discover new and improved products that can expand our customer's markets. Second, to increase the quality and value of our customer's existing products, making our customers more competitive in an ever-changing global economy.



Our process development capabilities include fully operational pilot plants, which effectively simulates commercial-scale process environments.

Each day, the Total Petrochemicals process development team works to advance the efficiencies of our process technology.

 


Other services in this department include on-site construction supervision, computer-process simulations, and training and start-up assistance for licensees. We also design and conduct ongoing studies to better understand the effects of optimized formulations and enhanced operating conditions on quality, chemical structure and mechanical properties.

In order to answer our client's needs we have technical assistance teams in every key country, so that they can be quickly on site.