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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Hengli Petrochemical
has restarted operations at its no.1 purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant at
Dalian, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
A
Polymerupdate source in China informed that the plant was brought on-stream on
August 14, 2018 following a planned maintenance turnaround. The plant was taken
off-stream on August 1, 2018. Currently, the plant is operating at 80-85%
production capacity rates.
Located at Dalian in China, the plant has a
production capacity of 2.2 mmt/year.
As MRC reported
previously, in May 2018, INVISTA’s technology and licensing group, INVISTA
Performance Technologies (IPT), and Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Co.,Ltd.
(Hengli) reached an agreement to license INVISTA’s latest purified
terephthalic acid (PTA) process technology for Hengli’s fourth PTA line.
Hengli’s first three PTA lines, the first of which began operation in 2012, also
utilize INVISTA’s technology and have a combined capacity of 6.6 million metric
tonnes per year. The fourth line will have a design capacity of 2.5 million
metric tonnes per year and will be installed at Changxing Island, Liaoning
Province of China. |
