MOSCOW (MRC) -- China's Hanbang Petrochemicals will be commencing trial runs for its second purified terephthalic acid (PTA) unit on January 22, 2016, an industry source told TPS.
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 continue to be run at full capacity after the new plant starts up, the source added.
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.
MRC