MOSCOW (MRC) -- Hengli Petrochemical has taken off-stream its No. 2 purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has halted operations at the plant early this week. The planned maintenance is likely to remain in force for a period of around 20-22 days.
Located in Dalian, northeast China, the plant has a production capacity of 2.2 million mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, in December 2015, Hengli Petrochemical's 74 billion yuan refining and petrochemical complex started construction in Changxing Island Industrial Zone, Dalian, Liaoning Province, marking the first private company entering the oil refining industry. The project locates in petrochemical industrial park of Changxing Island and is near the company's PTA plant. The project includes 4.5 mln tpa aromatics complex and 20 mln tpa refining and petrochemical facility.
Hengli Group which was founded in 1994 now owns the largest PTA factory of monomer capacity, the largest production base of superbright polyester yarn and industrial yarn, the largest weaving enterprise in the world. It now has more than 50,000 staffs, and has been established into "Enterprise Technology Center" of our country. Its business sets foot in several industries such as petrochemical, polyester,chemical fiber, weaving, thermal power, machinery, hotel and real estate,etc. The enterprise competitiveness and brand value of the products stand first on the list among the same industry. In 2014, the sales volume of Hengli Group is RMB 163 billion, which ranks 11th in China's top 100 private enterprises.
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