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Nova Chemicals Corp., Calgary, has commissioned the Polyethylene 1 (PE1) plant expansion project at its ethylene and PE complex in Joffre, near Read Deer, Alta. The 450,000-tonne/year, single-train linear low-density PE (LLDPE) gas phase reactor, which reached startup in December 2016, is now producing butene LLDPE for shipment to customers, Nova Chemicals said. (Source)

2016: We reached a major company milestone: the $1-billion PE1 Expansion project marked the first linear low density polyethylene reactor start-up in the America’s in a decade. By year-end, the first granular test product was produced from the expansion. (Source)

We assume the third reactor is based on Unipol technology, although there is no retrievable mention of the technology used.