(fibre2fashion) -- Hengli Petrochemical has recently commissioned the first phase of a world-scale purified terephthalic acid (PTA) project in Changxing Island of Dalian, Liaoning Province, China.
Hengli Petrochemical which is utilizing PTA technology from Invista, claims that the plant is the world’s largest monomer production plant.
The PTA plant was set up in a record time of two years after Hengli Group, Dalian municipal government and Changxing Island CMC signed an investment agreement. It completed all purchases in six months and took just seven months to install the main equipment.
According to media reports, the first phase of the PTA plant will have a capacity of 2.2 million tonnes per annum and after the entire project is commissioned, PTA capacity will reach 4.4 million tonnes per year.
As MRC reported earlier, Hengli Petrochemical Company operates two PTA plants in Dalian with the total capacity of 4.4 million tpa. The company resumed operations at its PTA plant No. 2 with a capacity of 2.2 million tpa at the weekend, 20-21 October, 2012. Company's PTA plant No. 1 with the capacity of 2.2 million tpa resumed production in September 2012. At present, the plant's No. 1 capacity utilization is 80% of it total production capacity.
MRC