MOSCOW (MRC) -- Datang Duolun Coal Chemical Corporation has shut its coal-based polypropylene (PP) plant in Inner Mongolia on 6 September, 2021, following an order from the regional government as part of the “Dual Control” of energy consumption and energy intensity, according to CommoPlast.
The 460,000 tons/year PP plant is expected to remain offline until 30 September 2021.
In a statement on its official gazette, the Inner Mongolia regional government said that for the first seven months of 2021, the region’s coal consumption hit 6.7 million tons, representing a 2% growth rate year-on-year, which exceeded the target of 1.5% growth rate. High energy consumption companies within the region are ordered to temporarily shut down as not to affect the year-end target.
Coal supply in local China has been persistently tight over the past months due to high demand and transportation bottlenecks. The central government has been rallied top miners to ramp up supplies. According to a report from Reuters citing local media, in August 2021, coal inventories held by miners fell 26% year-on-year to historic lows.
As MRC reported earlier, Datang Duolun took off-stream its two PP units on July 28, 2020, for a turnaround, which laste until September 10, 2020. Located at Duolun in Inner Mongolia, the two PP units have a production capacity of 230,000 mt/year each.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market were 727,160 tonnes in the first six months of 2021, up by 31% year on year. Supply of homopolymer PP and block-copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymers) increased. Supply of statistical copolymers of propylene (PP random copolymers) subsided.
Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd. is a power generation company. The principal activities of the Company are power generation and power plant development in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is also engaged in activities, including the sale of electricity and thermal power, repair and testing of power equipment, power related technical services, coal trading, chemical products manufacturing and selling, coal chemistry, transportation and recycling.
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