MOSCOW (MRC) -- China's Hanbang Petrochemicals aims to start up its second purified terephthalic acid (PTA) unit in late-February, a company source told TPS.
The company had to postpone its start-up, initially planned for October 2015, to December due to technical issues. Hanbang then planned to have the plant up and running before the Lunar New Year holidays, which began on February 8, but the operation was unsuccessful. The company now aims to get the plant online by the end of this month, the source said.
The startup of Hanbang's new 2.2 million/year PTA line will increase its total nominal PTA production capacity to 2.8 million mt/year. The company's existing 600,000 mt/year line will continue to be run at full capacity after the new plants starts up, the source had said.
Hanbang Petrochemical, also known as China Prosperity Jiangyin Petrochemical, is situated in Jiangyin city within China's Jiangsu province.
We remind that, as MRC reported earlier, in late November 2015, Hengli Petrochemical took off-stream its PTA line. A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the line was shut on account of a technical glitch recently. It remains unclear when the line will restart operations. Located in Hengli, China, the PTA line has a production capacity of 1.1 million mt/year.
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