Frequently Asked Questions

Polypropylene is a high-demand thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications from food packaging to healthcare PPE, to textiles and outerwear, to automotive safety parts to personal hygiene products. Polypropylene is the world’s single most-used polymer, accounting for ~30 per cent of global demand for all plastics.

Heartland Polymers produces homopolymers and random copolymers, with plans to expand product lines in the future.

Homopolymers – Produced in a single reactor with no comonomer addition
Random Copolymers – Produced in a single reactor but with up to 5 per cent ethylene comonomer added. 

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Heartland Polymers uses leading technologies to convert locally sourced propane into polypropylene. The raw product is shipped in the form of pellets which can be easily transformed by manufacturers and converters into the products that support our modern lives.

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Our integrated PDH/PP production facility, Heartland Petrochemical Complex, is located in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, which is about a 30-minute drive Northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Inter Pipeline is an energy infrastructure business engaged in the transportation, processing and storage of energy products across Western Canada and Europe, and the parent company to Heartland Polymers.

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Discover how Heartland is reducing GHG emissions, reducing freshwater uptake, reducing carbon, and investing in tangible solutions that support a circular economy.

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We service North America from inventory in Alberta and from our storage-in-transit (SIT) facility located in the U.S. Midwest. We also export material from Vancouver, Canada and from various ports in the United States.

Our production facility is connected to rail transport for reliable delivery to customers across North America and international ports for global delivery. Our rail fleet is equipped with GPS for real-time tracking. 

Our plant production capacity is 525,000 metric tonnes per year or ~1.1 billion pounds per year.

Find information about our polypropylene on our products page.

Our Products

Find our specific polypropylene SDS on our products page.

Our Products

We use the UNIPOL® Proprietary Gas Phase Polypropylene Process Technology and Oleflex™ for Propane dehydrogenation processing.

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Our Technology

Yes, Heartland Polymers is certified to the ISO 9001:2015 standard until early 2027. You can view the certificate here.

Yes, all our homopolymer and random copolymer grades are made with phthalate-free catalyst.

Yes, all our homopolymer and random copolymer grades are formulated to be ADM-free.

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