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2005/12/23 Asia Chemical Weekly 　　　　　　　　　　　　　

中国、「産業構造調整指導リスト」を公表

　中国の発展改革委員会（NDRC）はこのたび、「産業構造の調整促進のための暫定規定」と「産業構造調整指導リスト」を公表した。このうち「指導リスト」は、産業分野を奨励対象、規制対象、淘汰対象の３種に分類している。奨励対象は539種、規制対象は190種、淘汰対象は399種。別荘やゴルフ場、競馬場の開発事業も規制対象に分類されており、今後の産業構造の調整で規制を受けることになる。

　「指導リスト」のうち化学関連の主なものは以下の通り。

Encouraged chemical industries
- Production of environment friendly coatings
- Production of new Biochemical products, fine and specialty chemicals and film materials
- Development and production of new and high-effective, non-pollution catalysts
- Production of organo-silicon, organo-fluorine and high performance inorganic-fluorine chemicals
- Production of Inorganic Nano materials and functional materials
- Development and production of new-type dyes and its intermediates
- Large-scale aromatics projects
- Reconstruction of refineries for refined oil products quality-improving, and reconstruction for lower energy consumption
- Large scale ethylene projects (capacity not less than 800,000 tonne/year in Eastern and coastal areas of China,
　capacity not less than 600,000 tonne/year in Western China) and the expansion of existing ethylene plant
- Large scale synthetic resin projects and development of new processes and products of synthetic resin
- Technologies development and equipments manufacture for large-scale CPL, MEG, and ACN projects
- Development of advanced processes and manufacture of new products for large-scale synthetic rubber, synthetic emulsion
　and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE)
- Production of new environment friendly Spin-finishes and additives and other textile specialty chemicals
- Production of compounding materials, functional polymers, engineering plastics and low-cost new plastics alloy
- Production of organo-chemical raw materials with advanced processes
- Production of high-class road bitumen, polymer modified bitumen and specialty bitumen
- Comprehensive utilization of low-sulfur heavy crude oil
- PVC production using Oxygen-Chlorinated route and capacity not less than 200,000 tonne/year
- Production of TiO2 using Chlorinated route
- Production of alcohols and ethers as fuels

Restricted chemical industries
- Polyester projects using DMT route, or with capacity less than 100,000 tonne/year
- PP projects with capacity less than 70,000 tonne/year (including both batch and continuous process)
- ACN projects with capacity less than 100,000 tonne/year
- ABS projects with capacity less than 100,000 tonne/year (excluding mass continuous process)
- Ethylene projects with capacity less than 600,000 tonne/year
- Atmospheric and vacuum distillation refinery with process capacity less than 8000,000 tonne/year
- Catalytic cracker with capacity less than 500,000 tonne/year, continuous reformer with capacity less than 400,000 tonne/year,
　hydro-cracking project with capacity less than 800,000 tonne/year and delayed coke project
- PE projects with capacities less than 200,000 tonne/year
- PVC project using ethyl! ene oxygen-chlorinated route with capacity less than 200,000 tonne/year,
　and using calcium carbide route with capacity less than 120,000 tonne/year
- SM projects with capacity less than 200,000 tonne/year (excluding dry gas produces ethylbenzene process)
- PS projects with capacity less than 100,000 tonne/year
- PTA projects with capacities less than 225,000 tonne/year
- EO/MEG projects with capacities less than 200,000 tonne/year
- CPL projects with capacities less than 100,000 tonne /year
- Acetic acid projects using ethylene route with capacity less than 200,000 tonne/year,
　using carbonyl-synthetic route with capacity less than 100,000 tonne/year,
- Ammonia soda with capacity less than 1000,000 tonne/year
- Alkali projects with capacity less than 300,000 tonne/year
- Acid projects by sulfur with capacity less than 200,000 tonne/year, and acid pr! ojects by pyrites with capacity less than 100,000 tonne/year
- Lead yellow and Chrome yellow projects with capacities less than 1000 tonne/year
- Iron oxide red pigment projects with capacity less than 5000 tonne/year
- Caustic soda with capacity less than 150,000 tonne/year
- Caustic potash with capacity less than 20,000 tonne/year
- (Methyl) organsilicon monomer project with capacity less than 20,000 tonne/year

なお、 NDRC は2004年４月に通牒746号を出し、経済の過熱化を押さえ貸付リスクを管理するため、一定能力以下のプロジェクトや環境に悪影響を与えると見られる技術を使用するプロジェクトを規制の対象とした。

　今回の規制対象はほとんど、これと同じだが、カーバイド法PVCは前回は８万トン以下を規制対象としているが、今回は１２万トン以下に引き上げられている。

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China Chemical Reporter 2005/12/23

China Restricts Export of Some Products

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), the Ministry of Land Resources, the Customs General Administration, the State Taxation Administration and the State Environmental Protection Administration jointly issued a notice on Dec. 7, deciding to exercise further control on the export of products with high energy consumption, high pollution and resource nature.

Relevant chemical products are as follows:
1. Prohibit the processing trade of some products: Starting from Jan. 1, 2006
the processing trade through importing DDT, hexachlorobenzene intermediate, chlordane, 666, p-chlorophenyl and trichloro ethanol, sodium pentaxchlorophenate and cyhexatin and then exporting processed pesticide products and through importing disperse dyes and then exporting processed products will be prohibited and no processing trade contracts will be examined and approved.

2. Readjust the export rebate policy of some products: Starting from Jan. 1, 2006 the export rebate of coal tar will be eliminated and the export rebate rate of the 25 pesticide varieties in the “PIC Convention” and the “POPSP Convention”, disperse dyes, mercury, wolfram, zinc, tin, antimony and products, metal magnesium and primary products, disodium sulfate and paraffin will be reduced to 5%.

3. Control the export amount of some products with resource nature: Regarding some exhaustible products with resource nature, while controlling their domestic production and consumption, the control on their export amount will also be tightened to protect domestic resources. The export amount of rare earth products will be reduced. The export quota of coke will be maintained at the level of the previous year with no increase. The export of oil products in the form of processing trade will be strictly controlled. The export amount of gasoline, kerosene and diesel will be approved by MOC and NDRC and the customs will make clearance according to the approved amount.

China Chemical Reporter 2005/12/27

Acrylamide Expansion Completed in Jiangxi 江西省南昌

The first phase of the 10 000 t/a acrylamide crystal expansion project in Jiangxi Changjiu 江西昌九 Agricultural Science Chemical Co., Ltd. located in Jiangxi Nanchang is completed and has produced qualified acrylamide crystals. 江西省南昌

The first phase of the acrylamide expansion project using the microbial process has a capacity of 5 000 t/a and a total investment of RMB29.2142 million. DCS system from the United States is used to exercise automatic management and control. The second phase has also started construction and is expected to be completed at the end of February 2006. After the completion of the whole project, the capacity of acrylamide crystals in the company will reach 20 000 t/a and the company will become the biggest microbial-process acrylamide crystal producer in China.

日本経済新聞　2005/12/29

東洋エンジ　石油代替燃料　中国で技術支援　最大プラント設計

　東洋エンジニアリングは中国国営の大手石炭会社に、石油代替燃料として有望なジメチルエーテル(DME)分野で技術支援する。同国西北部に建設が計画されている年産２１万トンのDMEプラント設計などを担当する。

　石炭大手の寧夏煤業集団(寧夏回族自治区)が総額４００億円を投じて整備する化学コンビナート計画の一環。

　中国大手肥料会社の瀘天化集団(四川省瀘州市)から年産１１万トンの燃料用DME量産プラントを受注し、来年３月にも稼働する見込み。　

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China Chemical Reporter　2006/3/28

DME Unit Starts Production in Sichuan　瀘天化集団(四川省瀘州市)

The 100 000t/a dimethyl ether (DME) unit has recently completed wet commissioning and produced qualified products in Lutianhua Lvyuan Alcohol Corporation in Sichuan province. Up until March 18th, 2006, excellent DME product with the purity of 99.83% has been produced.
This 100 000t/a DME unit in Lutianhua Corporation adopts the 340 t/d technology and equipment that is firstly originated in the world. This advanced gaseous technology and MRF-Z reactor are jointly developed by Lutianhua Corporation and Toyo Engineering Corporation of Japan (TEC) and further improved on the basis of 10 000t/a DME R&D unit that started production in August 2003. The 100 000t/a DME unit is the largest project of the seven investment projects in Lutianhua Corporation. This successful starting production of the 100 000t/a DME unit fullly indicated that the advanced technology and equipment with intellectual property right have some obvious environmental friendly characteristics. This unit is easy to operate and produces no waste liquid or corrosion with high product purity and low raw material and energy consumption in the process. Therefore, it has stronger core competitive edge.

2006/1/4 東洋エンジニアリング

中国向けに大型ＤＭＥプラントを受注
http://www.toyo-eng.co.jp/jp/news/17/180104.html

＜受注概要＞
■ 客 先：寧夏煤業集団有限公司 (Ningxia Coal Group Co., Ltd.) （注）
■ ＜本社：寧夏回族自治区・銀川市＞
■ 受注者：ＴＥＣ
■ 建設地：寧夏回族自治区東部 ＜添付＞
■ 対象設備：年産２１万トンのＤＭＥ製造設備
　　　　　　　　　＜ＤＭＥはジメチルエーテルの略。原料は石炭をガス化して製造するメタノール＞
■ ライセンサー：ＴＥＣ
■ 役務内容：ライセンス供与、基本設計、触媒供与及び技術サービスの供与
■ プラントの完成：２００７年末を予定
■ 受注の意義：

＊	世界で初めて年産1万トンの燃料用ＤＭＥ製造を完工し、引き続き年産11 万トンの設備を四川省瀘（ろ）州市で建設中の当社にとって、今回で３基目のＤＭＥ受注となります。
＊	中国では豊富な石炭をベースとした化学コンビナートの建設が多数計画されており、石炭からクリーンなエネルギーであるＤＭＥを製造することは、石油への依存解消や公害防止の面からも、現代中国社会のニーズに適合したものとして注目されています。

（注）客先の寧夏煤業集団有限公司は、2002年に４鉱山が統合されて設立された国営石炭会社。14箇所の炭鉱を操業し、従業員５万７千人、年間売上は約３５億人民元。客先が保有する埋蔵量約300億トンの高品質石炭を原料に、石炭のガス化による化学コンビナートを建設し、メタノール，ＤＭＥやメタノール経由のプロピレンの製造などを計画中。

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2004/01/30 東洋エンジニアリング

ＴＥＣ、世界最大のDMEプラントを受注
　　中国での次世代クリーンエネルギー利用が本格化

　東洋エンジニアリング株式会社（ＴＥＣ、取締役社長広瀬俊彦）は、中国の「瀘（ろ）天化集団公司」（Lutianhua Group Incorporated、本社：四川省瀘（ろ）州）が建設を計画している、年産１１万トンのDME（Di-Methyl Ether）プラントにかかわる商談を進めておりましたが、このほど合意に達し契約調印いたしました。

　

　

平成18年9月7日 東洋エンジニアリング

中国向けに石炭ベースで２基目となるＤＭＥプラントを受注

　東洋エンジニアリング株式会社（ＴＥＣ、取締役社長 山田　豊）は、石炭の豊富な中国山西省の山西蘭花清潔能源有限責任公司が山西省晋城市(Jincheng)に新設する、石炭原料の日産420トンDME製造設備のライセンス供与、プロセス設計、触媒供与及び技術サービス供与の業務を受注いたしました。

　このプロジェクトは、当地区に埋蔵される豊富な石炭を原料にしたＤＭＥプラントであり、生産されるＤＭＥは当面は液化プロパンガスの代替品、噴射剤などケミカルとして地元で消費される予定であり、将来的には自動車燃料代替を目指しています。中国では急激な経済成長によるエネルギー需要の増大並びに原油価格の上昇に伴う石炭の有効利用に対応するために、ＤＭＥなどの代替エネルギーの活用を積極的に進めています。当社は2003年に世界初の商業規模の燃料用ＤＭＥを四川省に建設して以来、引き続き同省(本年3月運転開始)、更に寧夏回族自治区（2007年に稼動予定)を受注し、今回は４基目となり2007年末には完成予定です。これら一連の実績を基に中国国内、更に海外においても積極的にビジネス展開を図ってまいります。

<受注概要>
　 　
■客先 　 山西蘭花清潔能源有限責任公司 (Shanxi Lanhua Clean Energy Co., Ltd.)
　　　　　　本社：山西省晋城市(Jincheng)
　　　　　　　　2006年に山西蘭花科技創業有限公司と山西光彩実業有限 公司と華陽集団（香港）有限公司の3社が
　　　　　　　　共同出資し設立した会社
■建設地 　 山西省晋城市
■対象設備 　 日産４２０トン（年産１４万トン相当）ＤＭＥ製造設備
　　　　　　　　　＜ＤＭＥ：ジメチルエーテルの略。石炭をガス化したメタノールを原料とする＞
■ライセンサー 　 ＴＥＣ
■役務内容 　 ライセンス供与、プロセス設計、触媒供与及び技術サービスの供与
■運転開始 　 ２００７年末
■受注の意義
　* 燃料用ＤＭＥプラントとして2002年年産1万トン、2003年年産１１万トン、2005年年産２１万トン受注と実績を重ね、今回４基目のＤＭＥプラント受注です。
　* 中国では豊富な石炭をベースとした化学コンビナートの建設が多数計画されており、石炭からクリーンなエネルギーであるＤＭＥを製造することは、石油への依存解消や公害防止の面からも、中国社会の現在のニーズに適合したものとして注目されています。

China Chemical Reporter 2005/12/29

400 000 T/A Methanol Unit Starts Production in Lutianhua 四川瀘天化

The 400 000 t/a methanol unit made successful startup in Sichuan Lutianhua Company Limited 四川瀘天化 on Dec. 11, 2005. Methanol produced has a purity of over 99.9%. With the completion of the unit, the capacity of refined methanol in the company has reached 500 000 t/a, holding the first place in China.

The 400 000 t/a methanol and 100 000 t/a dimethyl ether project in Lutianhua is a major project of the state. It has a total investment of RMB1.07 billion. The project started construction on Dec. 18, 2002 and was fully completed in 2005. After the project reaches the design capacity, the sales revenue is expected to reach RMB800 million a year. The 400 000 t/a methanol unit has the biggest single-unit capacity in China. After the 100 000 t/a dimethyl ether unit starts production at the beginning of 2006 it will the biggest dimethyl ether unit in the world.

「人民網日本語版」　2006年1月４日

雲南省初のごみ発電所、米との合弁で着工

雲南省で初の、ごみ焼却発電所「昆明五華ごみ発電所」が昆明市大普吉村で着工した。
同発電所は、中国と米国の企業による合弁会社「昆明キン興沢環境資源産業有限公司」が投資して建設する。建設費は4000万ドルで、建設期間は約1年を見込む。完成後のごみ処理能力は、生活ごみが毎日1000トン、年間で36万トン。発電量は、毎日50万キロワット時で、1年間の発電量は1億8千万キロワット時。
　　※キンは金が3つ

Platts 2006/1/11

China's Singpu Chemical Industries to double aniline capacity

China's Singpu Chemical Industries Co in east China's Jiangsu Province is set to double its aniline capacity to 90,000 mt/yr after a new 45,000 mt/yr unit is brought on stream in February, a source from the company said Wednesday.
In related news, Nanjing Chemical plans to double its aniline capacity to 200,000 mt/yr by early 2006. However, the company is only producing at half of its expanded capacity due to mechanical problems in the new unit. It is expected to be fixed by the end of February, according to a source from the company. （Sinopec 南京化学工業）

2006/1/12 Platts

Methanol plants in north China close due to feedstock shortage

Methanol production at Weishi Chemical in north China's Henan Province has been stopped for several months due to a coal shortage, according to a source from the company.

Weishi Chemical is one of the major coal based methanol producers in north China with a capacity of 180,000 mt/yr.

Puyang Methanol, another methanol producer in the same province, has a methanol capacity of 120,000 mt/yr, of which about 90,000 mt/yr is natural gas based and the remaining 30,000 mt/yr is coal based. The coal based unit also stopped operation due to the coal shortage.
The company has a coal based methanol capacity expansion of 200,000 mt/yr scheduled to be completed by 2008, the source added.

2005/8/16 China Chemical Reporter

Coal Chemical Base Established in Huating 　　 甘粛省華亭県

Gansu Development and Reform Commission has recently approved Huating Coal and Power Co., Ltd. to launch a 600 000 t/a methanol production line with an investment of RMB2.731 billion. The forthcoming construction of the project in Huating Shibaozi Industrial Zone will enable a quick use of natural clean coal produced by the company.
The company will develop its coal chemical industry through a three-step strategy.
In the first step a 600 000 t/a methanol production line will be constructed in two years' time. After the completion of the project, the sales revenue in the company will reach RMB3.2 billion and the profit will reach RMB800 million.
In the second step an investment of RMB3.9 billion will be made since 2008 to form a 1.2 million t/a methanol and 300 000 t/a polypropylene production line. The output value of the coal chemical industry will reach RMB3.0 billion and the sales revenue in the company will reach RMB5.5 billion.
In the third step another investment of RMB15.0 billion will be made to add a 2.0 million t/a oil synthesis unit through coal indirect liquefaction and a 300MW combined cycle generating set. The output value in the company will reach RMB8.5 billion. Through these three steps the company will finally develop itself into a large coal chemical production base from coal to methanol to polypropylene to oil and combined-cycle power generation. The total output value in the company will reach RMB11.1 billion.
Gansu Huating Coal and Power Co., Ltd. is the first limited liability company in Gansu coal sector jointly funded by 10 shareholders including Gansu Huating Coal Mine and Huating Coal Group Co., Ltd. with the approval of Gansu Government.

Platts 2006/1/20

China's Tianji to build a 600 kt/yr methanol plant by end of 2007

Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Co of Changzhi City in North China's Shanxi Province is set to build a 600,000 mt/yr methanol plant by the end of 2007, an official from the company said Friday.

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2006/9/19 China Chemical Reporter

130 000 T/A Aniline Unit Starts Production

Shanxi Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. announced at the end of August that its 130 000 t/a aniline production line, the biggest in China, has started production. The project is funded by the company itself with an investment of RMB430 million. It can increase a sales revenue of RMB1.58 billion for the company a year. Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. is the biggest phosphate fertilizer production base in China. 16 production plants in the company use coal and phosphate rock as raw materials to produce 300 000 tons of ammonia and 900 000 tons of nitric phosphate fertilizer a year and also various other products such as nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, NPK compound fertilizer and cement.

Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group
http://www.alibaba.com/trade/company/goto/~yxhan

Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd, (the former "Shanxi Chemical Fertilizer Plant"), introducing advanced equipment with 11 patents from 8 different countries, such as Germany, Japan, France and Norway, is the first large scale coal chemical industry enterprise at home with the coal as raw material to produce compound fertilizer. It is the largest compound fertilizer production base not only at home but also in Asia.
Its main products are synthesis ammonia 300 000 t/y, nitro-phosphate fertilizer 900 000 t/y, nitro-phosphate potassium fertilizer1, 000, 000 t/y, porous ammonium nitrate 200 000 t/y, nitric acid 540 000 t/y, concentrated nitric acid 50 000 t/y, NPK fertilizer 50 000t/y, calcium nitrate 20 000 t/y, cement 280 000 t/y and woven plastic bags 40 000 000bags/y.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/1/20

BlueStar Acquires Adisseo

On January 17th, 2006 China National BlueStar (Group) Corporation (BlueStar), a wholly owned subsidiary of China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) announced that BlueStar has completed in Brussels the transaction of acquisition of all of the share in Drakkar Holdings S. A. (Drakkar), the Belgian parent company of the Adisseo Group animal nutrition businesses (Adisseo) for cash. On October 20th, 2005 the parties signed an agreement on the item.

China Economic Net 2006/1/4

Chinese chemical company to purchase Adisseo Group with 400 mln euros

China National Bluestar (Group) Corporation is expected to acquire animal nutrition supplement producer Adisseo Group with 400 million euros next week, a source with the Chinese company said Friday.

The deal will mark the largest purchase between China and France so far, said Ren Jianxin, President of China National Chemical Corporation (CNCC), the parent company of China Bluestar.

Adisseo Group is world's second largest methionine producer, with 200,000 tons output each year and 29 percent of the global market share. Methionine, a supplement in the animal feed, could speed up the breeding process of poultry and thus save feeding stuff. It could also enhance human immunity.

China, though a big agricultural country, could not produce methionine before and the import in 2005 stood at 120,000 tons. Experts predict that demand will grow between 10 to 15 percent each year in the coming few years.

Ren said the deal will help develop China's poultry industry. Also with the technology transferred, China bluestar plans to establish a production base in China with the yearly methionine output of 200,000 tons.

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2005/10/21　

CVC sells Adisseo Group to China National Chemical Corporation

CVC Capital Partners has agreed to sell all of the outstanding shares in Drakkar Holdings, the Belgian parent company of the Adisseo Group animal nutrition businesses to Beijing-headquartered China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina). Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Adisseo designs, manufactures and distributes nutritional additives for the animal feed sector. The business' principal products are methionine (RHODIMET), vitamins (MICROVIT) and enzymes (ROVABIO). The group's turnover in 2004 was approximately Euro 500m. Adisseo was formed in connection with Drakkar's acquisition of Aventis's animal nutrition business in April 2002.

Anthony Clinch, managing director of CVC, said, 'I am delighted by this transaction, which is something of a landmark deal for the European private equity sector. Under its new ownership there is a great opportunity for Adisseo to further develop its products in fast growing markets and fully exploit its considerable technological capabilities. I am confident that under the leadership of Patrick Verschelde and with the support of ChemChina, Adisseo will continue to grow from strength to strength.'

Platts 2006/1/25

China's XinAo Group to build 2.4-mil mt/yr methanol plant by 2010 　　新奥集団　 内蒙古鄂尓多斯

China's XinAo Group is scheduled to build a 2.4-mil mt/yr methanol plant by 2010, said an official from its industrial base in Ordos Inner Mongolia in North China Wednesday.
The project is to be built in two stages. In the first stage, a 600,000 mt/yr methanol plant and an associated 400,000 mt/yr dimethyl ether plant would be built by the end of 2007. In stage two, a 1.8-mil mt/yr methanol plant would be finished by 2010.

XinAo Group 新奥集団
http://www.xinaogroup.com/en/about/about.jsp

Founded in 1989 with its headquarter located at Langfang Economic & Technological Development Zone in Hebei province河北省廊坊, XinAo Group is a comprehensive business conglomerate engaged in the field of clean energy development and exploitation, with major industries covering urban gas, energy equipment, bio-chemical business, energy chemical business and real estate development etc. By the end of 2004, the Group employs over 10,000 staff with a total assets nearly RMB 10 billion, more than 80 wholly-owned firms, holding subsidiaries and various branches throughout 50 cities at home as well as international metropolises such as Hong Kong, Melbourne , London , and Boston .

2006/1/25 BASF

BASF, Huntsman and Chinese companies consider construction of additional MDI plant in China
http://www.corporate.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2130&id=SmQ-c83tlbcp*hT

Plant to have world-scale capacity of 400 kt/a crude MDI
Startup of new MDI plant planned from 2010 onward
Several sites being evaluated
MDI/TDI project in Caojing progressing as scheduled


As part of BASF's investment strategy for the Chinese market, an integrated isocyanates complex is currently under construction at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Caojing. This project is progressing as scheduled, and is expected to begin commercial production by mid-2006. The complex is also a joint venture between BASF, Huntsman, and the same group of Chinese companies mentioned above. It will have a capacity of 240,000 metric tons per year of crude MDI, and 160,000 metric tons per year of TDI (toluene diisocyanate). The total cost for the complex is about $1 billion.

2006/1/23 AMEC

AMEC appointed project management contractor of billion dollar coal-to-chemicals development, China
http://www.amec.com/news/mediareleasedetails.asp?Pageid=876&MediaID=1108

AMEC, the international project management and services company, has been appointed by the Ningxia Coal Industry Group (NCG) as the project management contractor for the development of a new US$1.5 billion coal-to-chemical production complex in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China.

Work on the new facility, which is designed to produce 540,000 tonnes of polypropylene per year, will begin in February this year and will be completed in early 2009.
The complex will include a coal gasifier plant, a methanol and methanol-to-propylene unit, and a polypropylene unit.


Ningxia Coal Industry Group is a state-owned company, owned jointly by provincial and central government. The major holder is Shenhua Group which is the largest coal industry group in China, owned by the central government.

日本経済新聞　2006/2/8 　　

重大環境汚染の工場名公表

　中国国家環境保護総局は７日、重大な環境破壊のおそれがある工場やプロジェクト２１件を公表し、改善措置を実施しなければ生産停止などに踏み切ると発表した。昨年１１月の松花江の汚染事故が国際的な波紋を呼んだこともあり、厳しい姿勢を示した。ただ、以前に問題を指摘された企業がおざなりの改善で操業を続けている例があり、実効性が焦点になる。公表したのは、甘粛省や遼寧省など深刻な水質汚濁をもたらしている１１カ所の工場と、違法行為があった工場建設プロジェクト１０件。

2006/2/8　新華社

11 polluting plants told to clean up act

The environmental watchdog yesterday warned 11 highly-polluting factories to clean up their act or face fines or closure.

The enterprises found to have "serious problems" include Baiyin Nonferrous Metals Co in Gansu Province and Xingtai Iron and Steel Co Ltd in Hebei Province.

Baiyin is China's seventh-largest copper producer with an annual production of about 100,000 tons and Xingtai has an annual steel production of 2.4 million tons.

The 11 were identified by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in a nationwide survey of 78 factories, which began after a November chemical spill in Northeast China's Songhua River.

"Recent pollution accidents were caused not only by factories, but also the country's imbalance in industrial structure," said Pan Yue, vice-minister of SEPA.

"In the long run, industrial structure and localized environmental crises will replace individual polluters as the No 1 environmental threat in the country," Pan said.

SEPA will conduct a second round of checks on 127 chemical or petrochemical projects for environmental threats.

Located in river basins, coastal regions, densely-populated areas or nature reserves, the 127 projects have a combined investment of about 450 billion yuan (US$55 billion).

"SEPA has sent out teams throughout the country for inspections," said Zhang Jianyu, a visiting scholar at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University.

"The new round of checks is a more active response and a systematic approach," Zhang said. "But we cannot expect just one examination to solve all the potential threats."

SEPA yesterday also named 10 metal, transportation and power projects under construction or in trial operation near rivers, areas of dense population or nature reserves as posing serious environmental danger.

中国国家環境保護総局（SEPA)発表（中国語）　http://www.sepa.gov.cn/eic/649094490434306048/20060207/15019.shtml

China Chemical Reporter 2006/2/9

Weifang Yaxing Completes the Global largest CPE Project

The 40 000 t/a chlorinated polyethylene (CPE) project jointly constructed by Shandong Weifang Yaxing Chemical Co., Ltd. and Honam Company of Korea has recently started production. The company has therefore acquired a CPE capacity of 110 000 t/a and become the largest CPE producer in the world.
The 40 000 t/a CPE project in Weifang Yaxing Chemical Co., Ltd. is an investment project jointly operated by its controlled subsidiary Weifang Yaxing Letian Chemical Co., Ltd. and Honam Company of Korea. Weifang Yaxing Chemical Co., Ltd. subscribes RMB180.71 million, accounting for 75% of the registered capital. Honam Company of Korea is one of the largest CPE producers in the world. Its sales revenue is more than RMB12.0 billion a year. The company is the major supplier of raw material HDPE for the CPE project in Weifang Yaxing Chemical Co., Ltd. The cooperation between the two companies in the project can guarantee the supply of raw material HDPE used in the CPE production.

Weifang Yaxing Chemical 　　http://www.chinayaxing.com/Englilsh/egsjj.asp

Weifang Yaxing Chemical Co., Ltd is a normative public company with YAXING Group as its holding company, which is one of the national 520 key enterprises and has a developing history of over 80 years.

Yaxing Chemical Co., Ltd is a high and new technology joint-stock enterprise, which centers on developing and manufacturing new chemical products. Its main business is production and sales of 100,000 tons/a of chemical synthetic materials, 120,000 tons/a of caustic soda, 40,000 tons/a of PVC and so on.

Yaxing is the world’s largest CPE producer. YAXING introduced technology from Hoechst AG in Germany in 1990 and built the first 6,000MTPA CPE production plant in China, it further purchased exclusively the CPE production plant from Germany in 1994. After more than 10 years’ constant exploration and development, the annual production capacity of YAXING CPE plant will reach 110,000 tons, the quality of its products being world’s first-class. The types of the product will up to 20 from the original 5 thus becoming the world’s largest CPE business company both in capacity and types. In 2003, Yaxing “Weipren” CPE has occupied 28% of the total global market and 50% of the total domestic market. YAXING has now developed into the global preeminent representative for CPE producers.

2006/2/13 Platts

China's Lanhua to build 1-mil+ mt/yr methanol, DME plant 　　山西省晋城市 　蘭花煤炭實業集團有限公司

Lanhua Group of Jincheng City in north China's Shanxi Province is scheduled to build a coal based 1.5-mil mt/yr methanol and 1-mil mt/yr DME plant, an official from the company said Monday.
The methanol and DME project will be built in two or three stages depending on the market situations when the first stage comes onstream. In the first stage of the project, a 200,000 mt/yr methanol unit and a 100,000 mt/yr DME unit will be built by the end of 2007.
Its DME will be sold on domestic markets as fuels.
The company currently has a 20,000 mt/yr methanol unit associated to its fertilizer unit.
　顆粒尿素、炭酸水素アンモニウム、メタノール

2006/2/15 Asia Chemical Weekly

Cabot starts up world-scale Caron Black project in Tianjin

On Feb. 9, Carbot completed construction for its world-scale carbon black project in Tianjin Economic Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin City.

The project was started constructio! n in Jan.2005 and will begin production from Mar. 2006.

This plant is operated by Cabot Chemical (Tianjin) Co Ltd, which is a 70:30 jv between Cabot Corp and Shanghai Coking Chemical Co. (上海焦化有限会社). 　With the investment of USD 28 million, the plant has capacity of 61 000 tonne/y.

Also, another jv of Cabot and Shanghai Coking Chemical, which named as Cabot Performance Products (Tianjin), is building a specialty carbon black unit in the same site. It will have a nameplate capacity of 20 000 tonne/y. It is scheduled to begin production by Aug. 2006.

Tianjin will become one of the most important carbon black bases worldwide in 2007, as another carbon black project is underway, the 80:20 jv of Tokai Carbon and Sumitomo also planning to start up its 40 000 tonne/y plant during 2006.

Before the Tianjin projects, Cabot had a jv carbon black plant in Shanghai with Shanghai Coking Chemical, named as Shanghai Cabot Chemical Co., which currently has nameplate capacity of 130 000 tonne/y.

2004年3月10日 東海カーボン/住友商事

中国におけるカーボンブラック製造事業進出について
http://www.tokaicarbon.co.jp/information/news_20040310.shtml

　東海カーボン株式会社（社長：大嶽 史記夫、以下「東海カーボン」）と住友商事株式会社(社長：岡 素之、以下「住友商事」)は、共同で中華人民共和国（以下「中国」）天津市に現地法人を設立し、カーボンブラック工場を建設することを決定いたしました。日本のカーボンブラック企業としては、初めての中国進出となります。

社名： 東海炭素（天津）有限公司（予定）、以下「東海炭素」
資本金： 約２０億円（総投資額５千万ドル程度）
出資比率： 東海カーボン８０％、住友商事２０％(予定)
設立予定時期： ２００４年３月
工場完成予定時期： ２００６年初頭
場所： 天津経済技術開発区化学工業区内（１５万m2）
生産規模： 第一期　年産４万トン（需要に応じ、年産１０万トン程度に拡大予定）

背 景：
　中国のカーボンブラック需要は、自動車産業の急速な発展に伴い増加し、２００１年には日本の需要を上回りました。ここ数年は、年率１０％以上の伸びで大幅に増加しており、今後とも堅調に推移することが見込まれております。また、タイヤや自動車ゴム部品用途では、より高品質なカーボンブラックの使用比率は高まると期待されており、すでに中国国内のタイヤメーカー等からも高品質な製品の供給について打診が寄せられております。一方、カーボンブラックは、物流コストが比較的高いため、消費地立地が望ましく、原料調達も容易な中国は進出国としての条件を備えておりました。
　東海炭素では、主として日系、欧米系のタイヤメーカーや日系自動車用ゴム部品メーカー向けに、日本と同等のサービス体制で供給していく予定です。また、今後の状況に応じ、インク用に代表される着色用途等の高付加価値商品の非ゴム用途市場も視野に入れていく考えです。

2006/3/12 Asia Chemical Weekly

Tokai completes construction for carbon black project in Tianjin

Tokai Carbon (Tianjin) Co - an 80:20 jv between Tokai Carbon and Sumitomo has completed the construction for its project in Tianjin Economic Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin City. On 3 Mar, an opening ceremony for the company was held inTEDA.

The jv of Tokai Tianjin carbon was set up in Mar 2004. And the capacity of this project is 40 000 tonne/year with total investment for is USD 57 million.

Commercial production will start soon, and the output from the plant will supply to Japanese and western tyre makers. According to Tokai's estimate, the capacity of 40 000 tonne/year can match the carbon black demand of 13 million tyres per year.

Tianjin becomes an important carbon black bases with the increase of carbon black capacity.

Earlier this year, Cabot Chemical (Tianjin) Co Ltd, which is a 70:30 jv between Cabot Corp and Shang! hai Coking Chemical Co, has also completed construction for its world-scale carbon black project in TEDA, the project has capacity of 61 000 tonne/year. And Cabot Performance Products (Tianjin) is building a specialty carbon black unit in TEDA. It will have a nameplate capacity of 20 000 tonne/y. It is scheduled to begin production by Aug. 2006.

「人民網日本語版」　2006年2月16日

中国石油化学、子会社株を現金で公開買付へ

 中国石油化学工業株式公司（中国石化）は15日、取締役会にあたる董事会を開き、A株市場に上場している斉魯石油化学、揚子石油化学、中原油気、石油大明の株式を、流通・非流通株の全てを現金で購入する関連事案を審議の上、承認した。

  中国石化が発表した公開買付の摘要によると、各社の1株あたりの株価はそれぞれ、斉魯石油化学が10.18元、揚子石油化学が13.95元、中原油気が12.12元、石油大明が10.30元。対象とした企業の流通株の株主がすべて買い付けに応じた場合、購入価格は約143億元に上る。

  中国石化は、今回の買収に関する「董事会決議」と公開買付の概要を、16日に公告する。摘要によると、中国証券監督管理委員会から公告から15日間以内に異議申し立てが無ければ、中国石化は公開買付報告書など、今回の購入に関する文書を公告する予定。買付期間は公告当日から、公告後30日目まで。

Asia Chemical Weekly 2006/2/20

Guangzhou Petrochemical get final nod for ethylene expansion

Guangzhou Petrochemical Co - a subsidiary of Sinopec - has got final approval from NDRC for its ethylene expansion project.

Guangzhou Petrochemical would expand the ethylene capacity from current 200,000 tonne/y to 800,000 tonne/y, the feedstock could be sourced from its own refinery. The derivates would include HDPE, and EVA, while details cannot be confirmed currently.

The onstream date, however, has yet been decided. Initially it was expected start-up by 2008, while it might be delayed by Sinopec; because of a predicted downturn in the petrochemical cycle. It is expected to hit its bottom from 2009 to 2010 as lots of capacities (both from China and MidEast) will be released around this period.

The company is expanding its existing 7.7 million tonne/y refinery to 12 million tonne/y, and it is expected to start-up in 2006.

Currently, Guangzhou Petrochemical also has capacities of 200 000 tonne/year of PE, 110 000 tonne/year of PP, 80 000 tonne/year of SM, 46 000 tonne/year of PS and 35 000 tonne/year of Butadiene.

Guangzhou Petrochemical produced ethylene 217,000 tonne in 2004 and 214,000 tonne ethylene in 2005.

なおシノペックは昨年春に、中国での石油精製能力の拡大を狙うエクソンモービルとの間で、製油所の１８００万トンへの拡張とエチレンの80万トンへの増設を共同で実施することについて話し合いを行っているが、その後進展はなく、今回のエチレン増設は広州石油化工が単独で実施する。
エクソンモービルはシノペック、サウジアラムコとの福建石化・石油精製計画にも参加している。

2006/2/24 Asia Chemical Weekly

China produced 7.56 million tonne ethylene in 2005

In 2005, China's total ethylene output reached 7.56 million tonne (20% up than in 2004), as two new projects started up.

Two new crackers were commissioned in eastern China in 2005, one is Shanghai SECCO's 900 000 tonne/y jv cracker between Sinopec and BP; another is YPC-BASF's 600 000 tonne/y jv cracker between Sinopec and BASF.

PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical has completed the ethylene expansion, and total capacity rose to 750,000 tonne/y by the end of 2005, while the output has decreased from 580.000 tonne in 2004 because of its maintenance and the impact of explosion.

China's ethylene producers and outputs in 2005

新華社　2006/2/24

1st coal-based synthetic oil facility under construction 　山西省長治市

Construction work began Wednesday on China's first coal-based synthetic oil production facility in Changzhi City, northern Shanxi Province.

The Shanxi Lu'an Coal-based Synthetic Oil Demonstration Factory will have a designed annual production capacity of 160,000 tons, with its core technology developed independently by the Shanxi Research Institute of Coal Chemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A state-sponsored new- and high-tech project, the coal-based synthetic oil production facility is undertaken by Lu'an Group in Changzhi City.

According to Ren Runhong, president of the Lu'an Group, the project will take an estimated investment of 1.89 billion yuan (233 million U.S. dollars), scheduled for completion in 2008.

Ren said the coal-based synthetic oil facility will transform low-quality coal with high sulfur content into clean, liquefied fuel as a substitute of oil, which is in short supply worldwide. The new-type fuel can be directly used for cars, with a consumption rate of only 4.5-5 liters per hundred kilometers. Enditem

2006/3/1　Asia Chemical Weekly

PetroChina breaks ground for Chengdu ethylene project 　四川省成都市彭州

On 28 Feb., PetroChina breaks ground for its 800 000 tonne/y ethylene cracker in Pengzhou, Chengdu city, Sichuan Province.

The project is operated by Chengdu Petrochemical Co., which is a 51:49 jv between PetroChina and Chengdu local government. PetroChina got the final approval in late 2005 for the USD2.47 billion (RMB 20 billion) integrated petrochemical complex. The project is expected to starts-up by late 2008 or early 2009.

According to industrial sources, the downstream units of this complex includes PE, MEG, acrylic acid and acrylates, phenol/acetone and bisphenol-A (BPA).

The detailed derivatives and capacities show as follows.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/3/1

Sanyou Chemical Invests in Salt Production

Tangshan Sanyou Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. (Sanyou Chemical) announced on February 27th, 2006 that it will cooperate with Hebei Changlu Daqinghe Salt Chemical Group Company Ltd. (Daqinghe Salt) that is wholly owned by Tanghan Sanyou Alkali Group Corporation, to establish a new company named Tangshan Sanyou Salt Chemical Company Ltd. for a stable supply of raw material salt.
The new company has registered investment of RMB25 million, in which Sanyou Chemical invests RMB20 million in cash, holding 80% shares, and Daqinghe Salt pays RMB5 million in cash, occupying 20% equities.

唐山三友化工
http://www.sanyou-chem.com.cn/english_version/intro.htm

TangShan SanYou chemical corporation is located in Nanpu Development Area belonging to the bank of Bohai Sea, which approved by People's Government of Hebei Province. As a main sponsor, Tangshan Sanyou Alkali (Group) Corporation established Sanyou Chemical together with the Asset Management Company of SDIC, Hebei Provincial Construction & Investment Company, Gainful Investment Company, Tangshan Investment Company Limited. Sanyou Chemical was founded on 28th Dec 1999 with total assets of 1 billion RMB and more than 2500 clerks. Its process technology has reached international most advanced level in 1990s，its annual capacity is 1 million tons of soda ash at present，which is one of the biggest domestic manufacturing enterprises of soda ash.

Main products: soda ash with low salt content , dense soda ash, light soda ash, Edible alkali、calcium chloride(72％、74％) .

China Chemical Reporter 2006/3/13

Fluoro Chemical Base Cooperation Contract Signed

On March 6th, 2006 the Ganzhou Municipal Government of Jiangxi province and China National BlueStar (Group) Corporation (BlueStar Co.) held a signing ceremony in Beijing on the cooperation project of Ruijin Fluoro Chemical Base, located in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province.
The project is expected to construct by three phases with an anticipated investment of between RMB3 billion and RMB6 billion. The fist phase would include some facilities such as hydrofluoric acid, methane chloride and F22, with an expected investment of RMB1 billion to RMB1.5 billion. The second phase could be expanded the production scale on the basis of the first phase and developed organic fluoro derivatives, with an expected investment of RMN1 billion to RMB1.5 billion. The third phase would produce organic fluoro derivatives and fine chemical products, with an expected investment of RMB1 billion to RMB3 billion.
Ganzhou region is abundant on fluorite, salt and pyrite. The project will help to use the local resources, to produce a series of deep-process products and promote the rapid growth of fluoro chemical in China.

Platts 2006/3/14

China's Maoming Petchem to start expanded BTX unit in April

China's Maoming Petrochemicals, a subsidiary of Chinese petrochemical major Sinopec, is aiming to start-up its expanded BTX capacity by early April or mid-April, a company source from Sinopec International said Tuesday.
The BTX plant, located in south China's Guangdong Province, will be expanded to a capacity 450,000 mt/yr, up 300,000 mt/yr from its original 150,000 mt/yr. The company had originally scheduled commercial production to being only in late June. However, construction had progressed more quickly than expected, enabling the company to push its start-up time ahead by two months.
The start-up of Maoming Petrochemical's new 640,000 mt/year cracker remains on schedule for mid-September. Associated with its new cracker, the company will be bringing onstream a new 300,000 mt/yr polypropylene plant.

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Platts 2006/3/28

China's Maoming completes BTX expansion, first supply out H1 May

The BTX plant is being expanded by 310,000 mt/yr from an original capacity of 150,000 mt/yr.

Maoming's newly expanded BTX plant, with a total aromatics capacity of 460,000 mt/year, includes a 179,000 mt/year benzene unit, a 92,200 mt/year toluene unit and a 84,000 mt/year MX unit.

「人民網日本語版」2006年3月17日

石油製錬の合弁事業、外資側の株式保有率に制限

　国家発展改革委員会は16日、「石油製錬工業の中長期発展専門プラン」が国務院常務会議で可決されたと発表した。

　同プランは、中国石油製錬工業への企業参入に許認可制度を実施するよう求め、石油製錬の新規プロジェクトでは1ラインの規模が800万トンを超えることを義務付ける。

　また海外との合弁石油製錬プロジェクトでは、外資側が先端技術や原料の供給能力を備えることを求めると同時に、プロジェクトに関する株式は中国側の保有率が外資側を上回るよう求めている。人民日報系の北京紙「京華時報」が伝えた。

日本経済新聞　2006/3/18

住友商事　中国で医薬強化　増資へ新制度活用も

　住友商事が中国での医薬事業強化に大きく踏み出す。同社が２０％出資する中国の製薬会社、河南天方薬業が17日の臨時株主総会で、新株の発行に道を開く議案を可決したことがきっかけだ。住商は今後、中国政府が定めた新たな投資促進策を活用し、出資比率の引き上げを検討する。


　その際には、中国政府が１月３０日付で施行した長期的な保有などを前提に、外国企業によるA株上場企業へ投資を明文化した新しい規定を活用する。現時点ではスイスのセメント大手ホルシムが計画を表明しただけで、住商が利用すれば日本企業で初めてとなる。

2006年03月22日 Chemnet Tokyo

中国政府、エチレンの中長期育成計画を設定

　中国の国家発展改革委員会(NDRC)はこのほど、1月の国務院常務員会議で決定した第11次5カ年計画での「エチレン工業 中長期育成計画」を発表した。

　それによると、中国は2010年までに既存プラントの増設と新規計画により 1,060万トンの能力増を行うこととなる。(本年1月スタートの中海シェル計画や着工・承認済みの計画を含む)

　2005年末の能力が 780万トンであるため、この通りいけば2010年末には1,840万トンになるということになる。

　既存プラントの増設については、例えば茂名石化(38万トン)を80万トン以上に、上海石化(85万トン)を100万トン以上にする。また、撫順石化(15万トン)のような中規模プラントも拡張し、100万トンに近い能力に引き上げる。これらにより既存プラントの能力を2010年までに438万トン増やす。

　さらに、中海シェル計画のような大規模エチレンを7基、合計620万トンを新設する。揚子江デルタ、珠江デルタ、渤海湾地域が2010年には全国のエチレンの60%以上を占めることとなり、同時に新疆、甘肅、四川、湖北省など中西部地区にも大型エチレンが建設される。

　「育成計画」では、規模の経済と原料問題を提起している。エチレン新設の場合、能力は80万トン以上とすること、製油所との結合で原料入手を確実にし、新計画の原料の75%以上を自給することとしている。

　さらにエチレンメーカーに他の原料ソース、例えば、Sinopec傘下の石油化工科学研究院が開発した深度接触分解法(Deep Catalytic Cracking)FCCや、石炭→メタノール・メタノール→オレフィン(MTO)を探求することを求めている。

2006/3/24 Asia Chemical Weekly

Arkema doubles H2O2 capacity in China

On Mar. 23, Arkema China Investment Co., Ltd and Shanghai Coking announced Arkema Shanghai Hydrogen Peroxide (ASHP) will double its H2O2 capacity from 38 kt/y to 77 kt/y in Wujing, Shanghai.
The expansion project will produce high concentration (up to 70%) and specialty grades (i.e. food and electronic grades of H2O2). The construction will start soon and be completed in 2007. Both partners are evaluating further expansion project in order to reach a capacity of more then 100 kt/y finally.
According to the company, ASHP is the 2nd largest (the largest one is Guangdong Zhongcheng Chemical (廣東中成化学) which has H2O2 capacity of 92 kt/yr) H2O2 producer in China. The expansion project is expected meet the strong growth of demand for industrial and consumer goods in China. This investment will als! o allow ASHP to offer to customers in China the entire product range, including specialty grades. The product brand of ASHP is famous in the market and covers a complete range of product.

Besides the expansion of Arkema, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC) is building a 100 kt/yr H2O2 project in Caojing, Shanghai. The MGC's project is expected to start up in 2007.

日本経済新聞　2006/3/23

中国　設備過剰で法的手段も
　新規参入を制限・小規模企業を淘汰　地方に通達　電カでも懸念

　中国国務院(内閣)は１０業種を対象に、法的手段によって新規参入を制限したり小規模設備の淘汰を加速するよう地方政府などに通達を出した。国内の設備過剰を解消する狙い。かねて過剰が指摘されてきた自動車や鉄鋼だけでなく、足元では不足が問題になっている電力でも将来は過剰になる懸念があると指摘した。過剰対策はこれまでも取られてきたが効果は上がっておらず、強制力のある対策を打ち出すことで安定成長を目指す。

　国務院によると、設備能力が過剰なのは自動車、鉄鋼、アルミニウム、カーバイド、合金鉄、コークスの６業種。過剰問題が将来、顕在化すると懸念しているのが電力、セメント、石炭、紡織の４業種。

Platts 2006/3/31

China's Fushun gets nod on 800,000 mt ethylene plant expansion

PetroChina Fushun Petrochemical in China's northeastern Liaoning province has received a green signal from the Chinese central government on its 800,000 mt/year ethylene production capacity expansion plan, a PetroChina official said Friday.
Fushun Petrochemical, a refining and petrochemical subsidiary of publicly listed Chinese oil giant PetroChina, has 10.7 million mt/year of crude processing capacity and 175,000 mt/year of ethylene production capacity in Liaoning's Fushun city.

Beijing had given it the go-ahead for its 1 million mt/year new ethylene plant development in eastern Zhejiang province, Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Company said earlier this week. ZRCC officials noted a project of such scale would normally take three years to develop.

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2006/4/3 Asia Chemical Weekly

Fushun Petrochemical, a subsidiary of PetroChina, has got the approval from NDRC for its ethylene expansion project in Fushun, Liaoning Province.

According to the plan, Fushun Petrochemical will expand the ethylene capacity by 800 000 tonne/yr from existing 150 000 tonne/yr. The project is expected to start up by 2009. Naphtha feedstock will sourced from its refinery, and Fushun also will expand the refining capacity to 11.5 million tonne/yr from existing around 10 million tonne/yr.

Below is the other derivatives project and capacities.
BTX 400 000 tonne/yr
Butadiene extraction 120 000 tonne/yr
Polyethylene 800 000 tonne/yr
Polypropylene 300 000 tonne/yr
SBR 200 000 tonne/yr

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2006/8/18 PetroChina

PetroChina Fushun Petrochemical Breaks Gound for Large-scale Oil Refining and Ethylene Production Project

PetroChina Company Limited ("PetroChina" or the "Company") announced today the groundbreaking for a new complex at Fushun Petrochemical Company, a branch company of PetroChina located in Liaoning Province. The project is expected to boost the annual oil refining and ethylene production capacities of Fushun Petrochemical to 10 million tons and one million tons respectively.

Being PetroChina's prime project in its eastern business territory, the construction of the new complex at Fushun Petrochemical bears strategic significance to the Company's growth, which helps PetroChina optimize its crude oil resources allocation in Northeastern China, improve and streamline the structure of its refining and petrochemical businesses, as well as quicken the pace of implementation of combined strategies of resources, marketing and internationalization to enhance the Company's competitiveness as a whole.

The new complex comprises thirteen large-scale main installations, including an 8-million-ton atmospheric vacuum unit and an 800,000-ton ethylene producing unit. Key refining facilities are scheduled to complete construction and start operation in September 2008, with remaining units being planned to be completed and be put into service in June 2009. Chemical facilities are expected to begin operation in June 2010. Upon completion, Fushun Petrochemical will have a capacity of producing six million tons of high-end gasoline and diesel whilst adding 1.8 million tons of chemicals to its product mix per annum.

Setting the layout of "large-scale refining and chemicals production" in a specific zone, Fushun Petrochemical is destined to become the biggest integrated refining and petrochemical base in Northeastern China following the full completion and operation of the new facilities. The project would also serve to spur the development of related industries and local economy in a positive way.

* Currently, Fushun Petrochemical has nameplate refining capacity of 9.2 million tonne/year. The company processed 9.0 million tone crude oil in 2004 and 9.6 million tonne in 2005.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/3/30

Junhua 30 000 T/A Melamine Unit Starts Production

A 30 000 t/a melamine project has recently started production in Henan Junhua Chemical Industry Group (Junhua Group) of Henan Province located in the central region of China. This project is the first phase of the 150 000 t/a melamine project and stands for the formal startup of the development strategy of Junhua Group.
It is released that Junhua Group readjusted the product distribution and extend the industrial chain in recent years to explore the deep processing follow-up products of urea. With a total investment of RMB1.18 billion, Junhua Group constructed the 150 000 t/a melamine project and matched 300 000 t/a ammonium chloride project.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/3/31

Hainan and ChemChina Sign Agreement

On March 27th, 2006 Hainan Provincial Government and China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) signed a strategic cooperation agreement, between Liuqi, the vice nomarch of Hainan province and Ren Jianxin, the general president of ChemChina. Under the agreement, both sides will cooperate in petroleum, natural gas, salt chemical, rubber chemical as well as fine chemicals and new type chemical materials, and plan to build ChemChina Hainan Petrochemical base.

Platts 2006/4/7

China's Taida Chemical to start up 60,000 mt/year PA plant in May

China's Zhenhai Taida Chemical Co is set to start up its new 60,000 mt/year liquid phthalic anhydride unit in May, a source close to the company said Friday. Zhenhai will be selling its PA output to China's two major dioctyl phthalate producers - Ningbo Donglai Chemical Co (東来化工）and Ningbo Huatai Chemical Co(華泰化工）.
The former has a DOP plant with a nameplate capacity of 120,000 mt/year and the latter, a DOP plant with a capacity of 150,000 mt/year. Both are expected to take 30,000 mt/year of PA from Zhenhai Taida, according to a source from Donglai Co.
PA is one of the feedstocks for DOP production. Zhenhai Taida Chemical Co is situated in Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. It is a subsidiary of Sinopec Zhenhai, which is a subsidiary of China's state-owned oil and petrochemical company Sinopec.

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Ningbo Donglai Chemical CO.　　http://www.donglai-chem.com/introduction_en/intro.htm

Ningbo Donglai Chemical CO., Ltd. is a private-run DOP manufacturer. According the contract with Ningbo chemical zone management committee in July, 2003, Donglai will invest 150 million Yuan in this park and build a 150,000 t/a of DOP equipment, and it will be put into function at June, 2004.

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HUATAI CHEMICAL http://www.china-plasticizer.com/english1.htm

ZHEJIANG HUATAI CHEMICAL(GROUP)CO.,LTD. is a stock company subordinated to Holley Group. We focuse on manufacture and development of plasticizers, successfully stepping into the domestic chemical additive market. Starting from year1992, HUATAI has developed from a small chemical workshop to a well-known plasticzers manufacturer in China:producing plasticizers 200,000mts yearly, including basic plasticizers: DOP DINP, and specialities : TOTM, DOA, DOS, DOTP.

Our production base is located in JiaoChuan Block, Ningbo Industry Center of Zhenhai District, Ningbo City, China. For first period, a 150,000mts yearly scale device has been put into production since Oct.2004. The full capacity of this production base is expected to reach 250,000mts. We have our own technical expertise group and quality testing team to make sure of superior quality.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/4/11

HBON Laid Foundation for Aromatics Project

On March 28th, 2006 the foundation was laid for HBON Chem Company Ltd.'s 250 000 t/a aromatics production unit and matched dock project. The company was jointly invested and built by Deji Investment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. (60%), Ningbo Hongbang Petrochemical Co., Ltd. and Ningbo Kaifeng Petrochemical Co., Ltd. Total investment is RMB805 million.
Zhoushan harbor area of Zhejiang province 浙江省舟山in eastern China was selected as the project site, which occupies totally an area of 80 hectares, within which the first phase takes 43 hectares. The 2.4 million t/a heavy oil cracking unit will be built as the head. Supporting installations will be built in the downstream, including the world leading 600 000 t/a continuous aromatizing unit licensed from IFP of France or UOP, 500 000 t/a sulfolane based aromatics extracting unit, 1.9 million t/a direct cut oil hydrogenating unit, 30 000 t/a sulfur recovering unit, as well as other public and assistant facilities.

親会社　Ningbo Hongbang Textile Co.,Ltd.
　　　　　Ningbo Kaifeng Electric Appliance Co.,Ltd.

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Platts 2006/6/14

China's Hbon Chemical aims to start-up new BTX unit by end-2007

China's Hbon Chemical plans to start-up its new 250,000 mt/year benzene, toluene and mixed xylenes unit in Zhejiang either by October or November 2007, a company source said Wednesday. Construction begun in early May 2005 The source added that Hbon Chemical might consider expanding its BTX capacity to 300,000 mt/year.

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2008/5/12 Asia Chemical Weekly

HBON Chem started up aromatics in Zhejiang

In Apr. 2008, HBON Chem Company Ltd.(Zhejiang Hebang Chemical Co＝浙江和邦化学) has started up its aromatics project in Zhoushan (舟山), Zhejiang Province.

With total investment around USD100 million, the project has 250,000 ton/year BTX (Benezene 50,000tpa, Toluene 80,000tpa and Xylene 120,000tpa) capacity.

The project was started construction in Q2 of 2006. By using UOP aromatics technology, the project can process heavy oil as a feedstock, and the BTX products will be provided to East China Market.

Currently, the company uses heavy oil as feedstock  rather than naphtha.
According to the company, it has a 2.4 million t/a heavy oil cracking unit.

Hebang is a jv of Hong Kong based Deji (�ｺ基) Investment Company, Ningbo Hongbang (宏邦) Petrochemical and Ningbo Kaifeng Petrochemical. Deji Investment holds 60% stakes in Hebang, and the other two companies hold the rest 40%.

Ningbo Hongbang Petrochem and Ningbo Kaifeng Petrochem are two local petrochemical traders.
Hongbang is in charge of lube base oil, fuel oil, etc, and Kaifeng is charge of petrol coke, solvent oil, aromatics and fuel oil.  

The background of Deji Investment is not clear, it seems based in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and has dirversfied business(including real estate, Shopping mall), while set up an investment company in Hong Kong, then make investment in China. 

Platts 2006/4/12

China's Oriental Petchem starts 600,000 mt/year PTA plant

China's Oriental Petrochemical (Shanghai) Corp has successfully started up its 600,000 mt/year purified terephthalic acid plant in Shanghai, a source close to the company on Wednesday.
Paraxylene and acetic acid feedstocks were fed into the unit as part of its testing on March 29 and the plant started producing on-spec material on April 1. So far, operations have been smooth and OPC is expected to start selling PTA in the market latest by early May.
The plant, which cost slightly less than $300 million, will run at 100% capacity once initial testing and start-up operations are completed. OPC was set up in January 2003 by the Taiwan's Far Eastern Group.

In mid-March, Indorama Thailand also successfully started up its 700,000 mt/year PTA plant in Rayong, Thailand. Its current operating rate is around 95%, a company source said on Wednesday. Weekly PTA spot prices closed at $795-800/mt CFR Asia on April 6.

2006/4/14 新疆ウイグル自治区政府

Xinjiang make new breakthrough in natural gas fine chemical industry

On the afternoon of Mar.28th, the ethyne (acetylene) project of Xinjiang Weimei Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. started its construction in Korla, which is jointly invested by Sichuan Vinylon factory of Sinopec. and XJ Markor Investment Group. The construction symbolizes that Xinjiang makes new breakthrough in natural gas fine chemical industry.
Chenlei, member of CPC XJ standing committee, executive vice chairman of XJ Uygur Autonomous Region, and Liu Genyuan, director of China Petroleum and Chemical Cooperation, board chairman and general manager of Sinopec. Finance Department attended the opening ceremony.
It is learned that, the project plans to be finished in 2007. After its completion, the annual production value will reach 0.25 billion RMB and realized the revenue of 30,000,000 RMB annually for the local place.
The ethyne project of Weimei chemical Co. Ltd. adopts the advanced and mature crafts technique. Compare with the same products, its products are featured by reasonable production line, high technical-content and low energy consumption.
As one of the basic organic chemical materials, the product can produce various organic chemical products inclusive of synthetic rubber, organic solvent and paint.
The 2 sides express that they will further expand the cooperation for a further win-win.

Platts 2006/4/13
Last year Markor put an investment of RMB9.7 billion and made its first access to the petroleum and chemical industry in China. The first phase is a 60 000 t/a BDO project. Construction of the project has already started in Kurle Markor Chemical Industry Park. An investment of over RMB200 million has been completed and the project is in smooth progress now.
The NG-based acetylene project launched this time mainly produces acetylene used as raw material for the 60 000 t/a BDO project.

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2008/10/8 Asia Chemical Weekly

Sinopec and Markor start up acetylene and BDO project in Xinjiang

On Oct. 2, 2008, Xinjiang Markor(美克) Chemical and Sinopec held a ceremony for the startup of BDO and acetylene complex project in Markor Chemical Industry Park, Kurle(庫爾勒), Xinjiang.

With investment of USD 58.8 million, the acetylene complex project is operated by Weimei(維美) Chemical Company, which is a 50:50 between Sinopec Sichuan Vinylon Plant and Xinjiang Markor Investment Group (Markor Group). Weimei has acetylene capacity of 21,600 t/a, which uses natural gas as feedstock.

With investment of USD 205.9 million, the BDO project is operated by Markor Chemical Company, which is a whole subsidiary of Markor Group. It includes a 60,000 t/a BDO unit and a 15.000 t/a THF unit.

These two projects were started construction in Mar. 2006.

In Markor Chemical Industry Park, the acetylene will be produced by incompletely oxidation of natural gas, and the off-gas of acetylene will be produced methanol then turn to formaldehyde by oxidation. After that, the BDO is made from acetylene and formaldehyde.

Markor Group is a Xinjiang local private company with main business of furniture manufacturing.

一般の製法

China Chemical Reporter 2006/4/20

Polycrystalline Silicon Project Kicked off in Yunnan 　　多結晶シリコン

As the largest highly pure polycrystalline silicon production project in Asia, Aixin Silicon Sci-Tech Industrial Park recently started construction in Nanhaizi Industrial Park in Qujin county of Yunnan province. 雲南省曲靖市　
With a total investment of RMB10 billion, this project is funded by Yunnan Aixin Silicon Sci-Tech Co., Ltd., among which RMB2.5 billion is for the first phase. After the completion of the first phase project, the polycrystalline silicon capacity will reach 3 000t/a and further reach 10 000t/a in 3 years with the annual sales revenue of RMB50 billion.

2006/4/24 China Chemical Weekly

China's SEPA concerns pollution risks from chemical projects

After the Songhua River pollution incident which following the explosion at the Jilin Petrochemical aniline plant in Nov. 2005, China's State Environment Protection Adminstration (SEPA) has concerned more about the pollution risks from chemical projects.

Since Feb. 2006, the SEPA has ordered checks on 127 petrochemical projects, which are located near water sources, residential areas and protected zones. Among them, SEPA directly checked on 20 projects while local environment officials checked for the remainder.

The 20 projects directly checked by SEPA include:

PetroChina's Chengdu cracker project;
Yizheng Chemical and Fibre Co. 1,000 kt/y PTA projects;
BP Zhuhai 900 kt/yPTA project;
Mitsui Chemical Zhangjiagang 600 kt/y PTA project;
Mitsui Chemical and Gaoqiao Petrochemical 120 kt/y BPA jv project
etc...

On early April, SEPA released the checks results on 20 chemical projects and ordered the companies to carry out changes. Changes include new and more detailed environment and risk assessments, additional facilities, and relocation of residents living near the sites.

Mitsui's BPA project is asked by SEPA to build a water collection system so that water could be used to put out fires. Mitsui was also asked to work with petrochemical park officials at both sites on emergency measures.

The results of remainder projects which checked by local environment officials will released by SEPA in May.

Mitsui is waiting the final approval from China¨s government for its Zhangjiagang PTA project. And Mitsui submitted environment risk assessment reports to SEPA in March for this project.

SEPA asks Mitsui's project:
1. to further improve the solutions of incident avoiding and emergency response for the chemicals jetty
2. to further improve the environment risk assessment reports
3. to define and practice the company¨s solutions of environment emergency response and keep which work well together with the solutions of environment emergency response of Chemical Industry Park and local government.

Mitsui's project would not be impacted by the environment if it does the required changes.

Platts 2006/4/26

China Dalian Petrochem to start new PP line end-May or early June

PetroChina Dalian Petrochemicals Corp in China's northeastern Liaoning province plans to start-up its new polypropylene unit by the last week of May or early June, a company source said Wednesday.

The company operates two other PP facilities with a combined capacity of 125,000 mt/year at the same site.

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Asia Chemical Weekly 2003-7-18

China's Dalian Petchem likely to delay PP startup to Q2 '05

Dalian Petrochemical expects to delay the startup of a polypropylene (PP) project in Dalian, Liaoning, China, to the second quarter of 2005, a company source said.
The 200 000 tonne/year project was originally expected to come onstream at the end of 2004 or in Q1 2005.
The source said the startup looked likely to be delayed as work on the project was held back due to travel restrictions during the Sars epidemic in China earlier this year.
The project will use Basell's technology. Propylene feedstock will come from Dalian Petrochemical's own refinery.

The source added that the company is still considering building a paraxylene (PX) plant that will be integrated with its refinery. Chinese government approval has been sought to expand the 10.5m tonne/year refinery to 20m tonne/year.
However, the PX project is still in its early stages, as parent company PetroChina has yet to approve it.

「人民網日本語版」2006年4月26日

中国最大の硫酸カリ肥料生産拠点、新疆ロブノールに

  現時点で国内最大となる硫酸カリ肥料生産拠点の建設プロジェクトが25日、「さまよえる湖」として知られる新疆ウイグル自治区の羅布泊（ロブノール）地区でスタートした。同プロジェクトは投資総額約40億元で、塩化カリウムを採掘して年間120万トンの硫酸カリ肥料を生産するというもの。2009年の工事完了と生産開始を目指す。

  中国地質科学院塩湖センターの鄭綿平主任（中国工程アカデミー会員）によると、中国の塩化カリウム消費量は世界の消費量全体の5分の1を占める。カリ肥料の年間需要量は現在800万トンで、うち80％を輸入でまかなっており、現在の需要傾向から考えて2010年の需要量は約1200万トンに達する見込みだ。今回のプロジェクトが順調に進めば、国内のカリ肥料不足が効果的に緩和されるものと期待される。

  ロブノール地区は乾燥した気候で、強い砂ぼこりが舞い、「生命の立入禁止区域」と呼ばれるが、枯渇したロブノール湖には豊富な塩化カリウム資源が埋蔵されている。鄭主任は「ロブノール湖は国内で近年に確認された塩化カリウム鉱床としては最大級。埋蔵量は初期探査で1億トンが確認され、将来的には2億5千万トンが見込まれる」と話す。

  ロブノール湖は塔里木（タリム）盆地の北東部に位置し、総面積約1万350平方キロに及ぶ世界最大の乾燥塩湖の一つ。ここ数年、国と一部企業が地質資源調査を行った結果、ロブノール地区には豊富な塩化カリウム資源が埋蔵されていることが確認された。北部のくぼ地だけでも、塩化カリウムを中心とした各種資源の大型鉱床が横たわっている。こうした発見は中国の塩化カリウム探査にとって重大な進展であり、今回の塩化カリウム生産プロジェクトはこの大型鉱床を拠点として建設が進められている。

2006/4/27 Asia Chemical Weekly

Wahaha plans large-scale methanol project in Inner Mongolia

Wahaha Group 娃哈哈集団　signed an agreement with Baotou local government to build a 600 000 tonne/year methanol project in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.　内蒙古自治区包頭市

Total investment for this proposed project is about RMB 3.6 billion (USD 449 million). This project will through Coal gasification route, and the coal feedstock will be secured by government and sourced from the local coal mines.

The project's start-up date is not confirmed. And also, it's unclear if the company will sell methanol or captive use for the downstream units in the future.

Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Wahaha Group is a major drinks manufacturer in China.

The company produces beverages such as milk, soft drinks and water. It is ranked one of the top brands in the country. Wahaha Group buys a great deal of PET bottle-grade chips and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for drinks packaging every year.

Baotou is an important location for coal output in Northern China, where Shenhua is also building USD 1.53 billion project, which including 1.8 million tonne/year coal-based methanol and 600,000 tonne/year methanol-to-olefins.

In China, the output of methanol is about 4.41 million tonne in 2004 and 5.36 million tonne in 2005.

Wahaha Group 娃哈哈集団 http://en.wahaha.com.cn/

China Chemical Reporter 2006/4/28

Sinopec Signed MOU with Aramco

On April 22nd, 2006, Sinopec Group and Saudi Aramco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to enhance the strategic commercial partnership between the two companies.
The MOU focuses on commercial and technical aspects of the companies' collaboration in the areas of crude oil treating and commercial storage, natural gas exploration and production, petroleum products and petrochemicals derivatives.
The MOU notes that Saudi Aramco is committed to supplying Sinopec and its affiliates 1 million barrels per day of Arabian crude oil by 2010.

Platts 2006/4/28

US Ticona to build thermoplastic, specialty PE plant in China

Ticona Technical Polymers of the US plans to build a thermoplastic compounding plant and a specialty grade polyethylene plant in China, to be operational in 2007 and 2008 respectively, the company said Thursday.
The thermoplastic plant would have a nameplate capacity of 2,000 mt/year, and is slated to be on stream by the third-quarter of 2007.
The ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene plant would be able to produce up to 20,000 mt/year and is expected to be on line in the first-quarter of 2008.Ticona officials were not immediately available to specify the plants' exact location(s) in China. The firm is a subsidiary of Celanese Corp.

China Chemical Reporter 2006-5-9

CNOOC Methanol Project Makes Successful Startup

 The auxiliary boiler, the first control point of the 600 000 t/a CNOOC methanol project located in Dongfang City of Hainan, made successful ignition on April 28th. The project has a total investment of RMB1.47 billion and is the biggest methanol project under construction in China.
   Natural gas needed in the project is supplied by Dongfang 1-1 second-phase gas field, a major project of the state. The gas field is 110 km from CNOOC Dongfang Chemical City. The second-phase gas filed Platform A already started production in March this year. After preliminary treatment, natural gas produced in the offshore central platform is transmitted to the onshore terminal (located in the chemical city) through a submarine pipeline. It is then taken to the methanol project after decarbonization in the terminal unit. Once the methanol project starts production, the consumption of natural gas is expected to reach 2.6 million m3 a day.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/5/12

Yanhua Relocates Residents from Plant Site 　　中国石化・北京燕化石油化工

Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Co., Ltd. plans to expand the capacity of the 8.0 million t/a oil refining project to 10.0 million t/a and also expand the capacity of the 640 000 t/a ethylene project to 1.3 million t/a.
Because of the overlapping of living quarters with factory site together, the environmental risk evaluation was not well done at first, said an official.
The State Environmental Protection Administration requested the company to do the evaluation once again and draw up a sounder scheme. The environmental risk evaluation report submitted the second time is much better than before. One of the most important measures to be taken is to relocate more than 8 000 residents from surrounding areas of the old factory site. Besides, the company will also install 4 emergency passes to remove pollution to the minimum. The official makes no disclosure of the final relocation time and place.

Asia Chemical Weekly 2006/5/12

Sinopec Yangzi starts up BTX and PX expansion project

Yangzi Petrochemical Company (YPC), a subsidiary of Sinopec, has started up its BTX expansion project in early May in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. (started production)

This time YPC expands its BTX capacity from 850 000 t/y to 1.4 million t/y, among them, PX capacity from 550 000 t/y to 800 000 t/y.

YPC increases PX capacity is to meet the demand of its new PTA project. Currently, the company operates two existing PTA units with the combined nameplate capacity of 600 000 t/y, and YPC is building a new 450 000 PTA project which is expected to come on-stream by the end of 2006 or early 2007.

China's net imports of PX were around 1.1 million tonne in 2004 and reached 1.6 million tonne in 2005.

As many PTA projects are planned and building in China, the gap of domestic PX feedstock supply would extend in the coming 2-3 years.

Asia Chemical Weekly 2006/5/19

China's NDRC regulates carbide industry

China's National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) released a notice to regulate the carbide industry. Small calcium carbide plants must be shut down and new projects will be restricted due to overcapacity, wastage and pollution in the industry.

As the high oil price and the demands of PVC products, China's carbide acetylene based PVC has advantages compared with ethylene based PVC products. So, the carbide capacity increased so fast that caused overcapacity over the past few years. According to NDRC, China's carbide capacity reached 17 million tonne/year, while the output is only half of the capacity in 2005.

According to the regulation, furnaces with or below capacity of 10,000 tonne/year, open-type units, and units cannot meet environment standards must be shut down in the future. And the approvals for new carbide projects should be controlled strictly, particularly, new carbide projects would be forbidden to build in Ease coastal areas.

China's total PVC capacity was about 9.33 million tonne/year, while total output was 6.49 million tonne in 2005; carbide acetylene based PVC accounts for about 70% output in China.

Carbide acetylene route will still dominate PVC production due to high crude oil prices which pushed up costs for ethylene-based PVC. Among the planned PVC projects, Carbide acetylene route accounts for around 60% of new proposed capacity.

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This Notice was issued on 21 April, 2006; while was released on the website of NDRC on 11 May.
Webpage of this notice: 　http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/tztg/t20060511_68503.htm

According to the survey by NDRC, furnaces with or below capacity of 10,000 tonne/year and open-type furnaces accounted for about 30% of total carbide capacity, so, around 5.1 million tonne/year capacity would be shutdown if the regulation conducted completely..

カーバイド法塩ビ設備
　新設についてはNDRCの2004年4月の通牒746号では、カーバイド法8万トン以下、エチレン法20万トン以下を規制、
　2005年12月の「産業構造調整指導リスト」ではカーバイド法１２万トン以下、エチレン法20万トン以下を規制する。
　
　既存設備については規制していないため、小規模設備が残っている。
　大部分はカーバイド法だが、エチレン法でも5万トン程度のものはある。

The big sized ccetylene based PVC project includes:
　Yili Chemical Industrial Co., 1m tonne/year in Erdos, Inner Mongolia 　　　　伊利化学（内蒙古エルデシュ）
　Sichuan Giant Star Group, 500 000 tonne/year in Leshan Sichuan Province　（四川省楽山市）
　Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Co, 600 000 tonne/year in Urumqi, Xinjiang　　　新疆中泰化工　　
　Shaanxi Jintai Chlor-Alkali Co., 300 000 tonne/year in Yulin, Shaanxi Province　（陝西省楡林）

2006/5/18 Platts

Sinopec Baling PC finishes CPL plant expansion

Sinopec's Baling Petrochemical has completed expansion work at its 140,000 mt/year caprolactam plant in Yueyang, Hunan, China, three months ahead of schedule, a company source said early Thursday. The company plans to ramp up operations to full capacity in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, Baling Petrochemical is looking to double its caprolactam capacity by a further 140,000 mt/year next year. Work would commence in the begining of 2007.

In related news, DSM Nanjing Chemical is in the midst of expanding its 140,000 mt/year caprolactam plant by 20,000 mt/year to 160,000 mt/year. Its is scheduled to be completed by early 2007.

2006/5/25 Asia Chemical Weekly

Jiangsu Lishide starts trial operation for SM project

Jiangsu Lishide(江蘇利士�ｺ化工) Chemical Co. has started trial operation for its 200 000 tonne/year SM project in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province.

The feedstock of benzene and ethylene will be sourced by overseas market. The SM output would sell mainly in domestic market, especially around Jiangyin City. These areas are the famous packaging base with huge demands for EPS products.

Lishide is a subsidiary of Jiangsu Shuangliang(江蘇双良集団) Group. Shuangliang is a listed company in Shanghai Securities Exchange which has diversified business includes air-conditioning, package, chemicals, hotel, etc.

Shuangliang is also building a 50 000 tonne/year aniline project in Jiangyin and is operating a 120,000 tonne/year biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) line at the same site.

China's net imports of SM reached 2.88 million in 2004 and 2.80 million in 2005, the decrease is because the new capacity added in 2005. Secco started up 500 000 tonne/year SM project and Changzhou Donghao (常州東昊化学) started up 150 000 tonne/year project.

In 2006, China's net imports of SM will decrease further as capacity added by CSPC and Lishide. In Q1 2006, CSPC started up its 550 000 tonne/year SM project in Daya Bay.

江陰市は発泡ＰＳ容器の製造基地として有名で、発泡ＰＳメーカーには江陰Runhua化工 (34万トン)や江陰新和橋化学工業（16万トン）などがある。後者は三菱商事、東邦化学と台湾の見竜化学工業の共同投資の独資企業。

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Platts 2006/11/21

China's Jiangsu Lishide to boost SM capacity to 400 kt/yr in 2008

China's Jiangsu Shuangliang Lishide Co expects to double styrene monomer production at its plant in East China's Jiangyin City of Jiangsu Province in 2008, a company source said on Monday.
The company first started production at the 200,000 mt/year plant in mid-2006.

In related news, China's Jinzhou Petrochemical Company was scheduled to start up its 80,000 mt/year SM plant in Northeast China's Liaoning Province in early December 2006, and China's Sinopec Hainan Petrochemical also completed construction at a 80,000 mt/year SM plant in South China's Hainan Province in September.

Platts 2006/7/3

China's Jiangsu Lishide begins styrene production

China's Jiangsu Lishide began production at its 200,000mt/yr styrene monomer plant late last week at the end of June, a company source said Monday.
"Trial production is going smoothly and well," he added.

2006/5/25 China Chemical Reporter

30 000 T/A Butadiene Project Starts Production in Tianjin

The 30 000 t/a butadiene project in Blue Star Tianjin Co., Ltd. recently started production and produced qualified products. With a total investment of RMB148 million, the project started construction in April 2005.
Principal facilities of the project occupy an area of 1 711 m2. The project uses the NMP process technology from BASF with compound C4 as the material. There are 10 production towers such as main washing tower, post washing tower and fractionation tower.

China Chemical Weekly 2006/5/30

Yitai CTO Project Starts Construction

The indirect coal-to-oil (CTO) project recently started construction in Inner Mongolia Yitai (伊泰) Co., Ltd. It will be implemented in three phases. Acquired complete intellectual property right, the capacity of the first phase project is 160 000 t/a, which will be completed and start operation in the first half of 2008 to mainly manufacture diesel, naphtha and LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). According to the company's plan, the second phase will construct 1.5 million t/a, and the project will finally reach 5 million t/a in 2015. Then, there will be a comprehensive chemical base to promote the development of coal-to-oil industry.

2006/6/2 Asia Chemical Weekly

CNOOC plans its second methanol project in Hainan  

CNOOC Chemical Co. - a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) - has planned its second large-scale methanol project in Dongfang City, Hainan Province.   The planned project has capacity of 1.13 million tonne/year and the total investment is RMB 2.36 billion (USD 295 million). It is expected to kick off by the end of 2006 and get startup by the end of 2008. The company is selecting a licensor for the project.   The methanol project will based on natural gas, and the feedstock will source from the CNOOC's gas fields near Dongfang.  

Also in Dongfang, CNOOC Chemical is building its first methanol project, which is implemented by a 60:40 jv with Hong Kong-based Kingboard Chemical Holdings. The 600 000 tonne/year project is to start commercial production in Q3, 2006.  

2006/6/8 Asia Chemical Weekly 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Start-up

Dalian Petrochemical completed construction for its PP project

Dalian Petrochemical, a subsidiary of PetroChina, has completed its 200 000 tonne/year PP project in Dalian, Liaoning Province. And this project is expected to start commercial production by the end of June.

The project, which costs RMB 690 million (USD 86.1 million), is based on Basell technology. The propylene feedstock will be sourced from the company's refinery.

Currently, Dalian Petrochemical has 140 000 tonne/year PP capacity with three existing PP units. After the new added project start operation, the company's total PP capacity will reach 340 000 tonne/year.

* Dalian Petrochemical has three PP units, there are 70 kt/y, 50 kt/y and 20 kt/y; while usually the 20 kt unit is mothballed as the efficiency of this unit is relative low.(2006/8/25)

Also, Dalian Petrochemical is doubling its refinery from current 10 million tonnes/year to 20 million tonnes/year and the start-up is scheduled in Q3, 2006.

China's total PP output was about 4.7 million in 2004 and reached 5.2 million in 2005.

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大連石油化工　http://www.dloil.com/english/Index.htm
was established in 1933, and was transformed and enlarged for many years, now there are 51 sets of devices of oil refining, 8 sets of devices of chemical industry, the crude oil working ability is 7,100,000 ton /year, and can produce more than 200 kinds of petrochemical products, such as petrol, diesel oil, kerosene, lubricating oil, paraffin, liquefied gas, benzene type, polypropylene, detailed fiber etc.

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中国情報　2005(2004)　単位：千トン

＜ポリプロピレン＞
◇生産量　　　：5,230（4,749）
◇輸出量　　　：22（15）
◇輸入量　　　：3,020（2,912）

「人民網日本語版」2006年6月13日

中国産ロイヤルゼリー、「ポジティブリスト」に苦慮

  中国医薬保健品輸出入商会が12日に明らかにしたところによると、日本がこのほど導入した「ポジティブリスト制度」に基づく輸入品の基準強化により、中国産のロイヤルゼリーが不合格となり返送されるケースが出始めている。同制度の導入後、中国製品が影響を受けた最初の品目となる。新華社のウェブサイト、新華網が伝えた。

  同商会の劉張林秘書長は12日、ロイヤルゼリーのクロラムフェニコール含有量について、日本厚生労働省から中国への声明が出されたことを明かした。同声明は、日本がこの種の製品に対し重点検査を行い、さらなる措置をとる可能性を示唆しているという。

  劉秘書長は、「日本の現行法によると、日本側が検査を決定した場合、60組の輸入貨物中3組に基準超過があれば、検査対象製品の輸入が禁止される可能性がある」と語る。

  同商会はすでに、5月の蜂蜜製品の検査で、貨物返送に関する通知を日本から受けている。ある企業から輸出されたロイヤルゼリー入りカプセルに、テトラサイクリンの含有量超過があった。

  同商会は同企業についての関連情報は明らかにしていないが、中国のロイヤルゼリー輸出市場の混乱を避けるため、自社の目先の利益のために不合格製品を輸出することのないよう、小企業に呼びかけている。

  劉秘書長は「中国は世界一のロイヤルゼリー生産国として、同製品の基準制定に積極的に関わるべきだ」と強調する。中国は今年、ロイヤルゼリーの強制基準を制定したが、対象は製品の成分と生産、加工、手作業のみで、外的要因による汚染物の含有量は規定されていないという。

  一方、日本が5月29日に導入したポジティブリスト制度は、食品の残留薬品に対して過酷なまでの厳しい基準を設けている。ロイヤルゼリーのクロラムフェニコール含有量の上限は、以前の0.05PPMから0.0005PPMへ調整された。（誤り：下記）　「これはほとんど検出できないほどのレベルだ」と劉秘書長は言う。

  中国のロイヤルゼリーの年産は3万トン近く、輸出量は約1万3千トンで、世界の90％以上を占める。日本は中でも最大の輸出先だ。

* 実際にはクロラムフェニコールは当初から「不検出（検出されてはいけない物質）」に指定されている。

クロラムフェニコールは抗生物質で、中国では、腐蛆(ふそ)病という蜂がかかる病気を予防するために使われる。

腐蛆病（ふそびょう）ーfoul brood
　腐蛆病はミツバチの幼蛆を侵す疾病で、アメリカ腐蛆病菌：Bacillus larvaeによるアメリカ腐蛆病、ヨ−ロッパ腐蛆病菌：Melissococcus pultonによるヨ−ロッパ腐蛆病が家畜伝染病に指定されている。
　アメリカ腐蛆病菌は、グラム陽性の芽胞性大桿菌の一種で、本菌の芽胞がミツバチの幼蛆に経口感染し、敗血症死を引き起こす。アメリカ腐蛆病は幼蛆が存在する期間はいつでも発生し、有蓋蜂児が主に死亡し、粘稠性で茶褐色の腐蛆、巣房の陥凹や小孔がみられ、時に膠臭がある。
　ヨーロッパ腐蛆病菌はグラム陽性短桿菌で嫌気培養で良く発育する。本菌に汚染された王乳をミツバチの幼虫が摂取して発病する。ヨ−ロッパ腐蛆病は、流密時に多発する傾向があり、無蓋蜂児が主に死亡し、透明なコイル状蜂児、乳白色で水っぽい腐蛆がみられ、時に酸臭がある。

*　日本国内で消費されているローヤルゼリーの92.9%が中国産。
　　女王バチを育てるためのローヤルゼリーはひとつの巣箱からほんの少量しか採取できない非常に希少なもの。
　　これを量産するには、広大で良質な蜜源と、繊細な作業のための手先の器用さが要求される。

*2006/2/14　食品安全部監視安全課

輸入食品に対する検査命令の実施について（中国産ローヤルゼリー）

　以下のとおり輸入者に対して、本日から食品衛生法第２６条第３項に基づく検査命令を実施することとしましたので、お知らせします。

対象食品等 中国産ローヤルゼリー（乾燥したものを含む。）
検査の項目 クロラムフェニコール
経緯 　輸入者による自主検査の結果、中国産ローヤルゼリーからクロラムフェニコールを検出したため検査命令を実施するものである。

輸入食品に対する検査命令等

厚生労働大臣は、食品衛生上の危害を防止するため必要があると認めるときは、生産地の事情、過去の違反事例等その他の事情からみて食品衛生法に違反するおそれがあると認められる食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装を輸入する者に対し、当該食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装について、厚生労働大臣又は登録検査機関の行う検査を受けるべきことを命ずることができるとされており、命令を受けた者は、当該検査を受け、その結果の通知を受けるまで、当該食品等の販売又は営業上の使用が禁止される（検査命令）。
検疫所では、食品衛生監視員が届出を審査し、違反の可能性の高い食品等について検査命令を行い、その他の食品等についても計画的なモニタリング検査を実施している。検査の結果、食品衛生法違反であることが判明した食品等については、廃棄、積み戻し等の措置が行われることとなる。

China Chemical Reporter 2006/6/14

Sinopec Group Purchases Beijing Dongfang Petrochemicals

On June 9th, China Cinda Asset Management Corporation and China Orient Asset Management Corporation announced respectively that they signed a contract with Sinopec Group Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company Ltd. for selling equity in Beijing Dongfang Petrochemical Company Ltd. Sinopec will totally pay a cash of RMB3.303 billion.
Currently China Cinda, China Orient, and Yanshan Petrochemical hold 76.91%, 6.36% and 16.73% equity in Beijing Dongfang Petrochemicals. Once the contract executes, Yanshan Petrochemical will control 100% equity in Beijing Dongfang Petrochemical. The proposal is subject to the nod of China Securities Commission.

  正しくはSINOPEC Beijing Yanhua Petrochemical Co., Ltd. 　中国石化・北京燕化石油化工
　（旧称　Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Co　燕山石化）

Platts 2006/6/15

Shanghai Gaoqiao to start-up SBR unit in July, ABS unit end 2006 　　SECCO隣接

China's Shanghai Gaoqiao is set to bring on stream its 100,000 mt/year styrene butadiene rubber unit in July, a company source said Thursday. It was preparing for a test run and is expected to get on-specification material in July.

Meanwhile, Gaoqiao plans to start-up a new 200,000 mt/year acronitrile-butadiene-styrene plant by the end of 2006, the source said.

2006/6/19 Asia Chemical Weekly

Urumqi Petrochemical got approval for large scale PX project

Urumqi Petrochemical - a subsidiary of PetroChina - has got final approval from NDRC for its world-scale aromatics complex in Urumqi , Xinjiang.
The complex project will cost about USD 474 million (RMB 3.8 billion). It includes PX capacity of 930,000 tonnes/year and benzene capacity of 320,000 tonnes/year. This project is scheduled to start construction in the second half of 2006 and come on-stream in 2008.

Feedstock would be sourced from the company's own refinery at the same site; while the PX products would be for captive use, as the company is considering building a 1.5 million tonne/year PTA project.

Currently, Urumqi Petrochemical has capacities of 10,000 tonne/year of benzene, 70,000 tonne/year of PX and 75,000 tonnes/year of PTA.

In 2005, China's net imports of PX reached 1.6 million tonne. Lots of planned and building PTA projects will demand more PX feedstock.

2006/6/19 Albemarle

Albemarle to Build Phosphorus Flame Retardants Plant in China

Global flame retardant leader Albemarle Corporation will build a new phosphorus-based flame retardant manufacturing facility at its technology and business center in Nanjing, China. Products from the new plant, which is expected to be fully operational in the second half of 2007, will help meet growing global demand for fire-resistant polymer systems and resins for construction and electronics materials.

From its new plant, Albemarle will supply phosphorus flame retardants for rigid and flexible polyurethane foams used in insulation and for resin blends such as PC/ABS and PPE/HIPS, used in electronic enclosures. The products, which will be marketed worldwide, are expected to help meet strong demand particularly in Asia, where construction and electronics markets are thriving.

Albemarle began construction of its wholly owned Nanjing technology and business development center in December 2005.


Albemarle Corporation, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals for consumer electronics; petroleum and petrochemical processing; transportation and industrial products; pharmaceuticals; agricultural products; construction and packaging materials. The Company operates in three business segments -- Polymer Chemicals, Catalysts and Fine Chemicals, and serves customers in approximately 100 countries. Learn more about Albemarle's flame retardants at http://www.albemarle.com.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/6/20

Akron 100 000T/A Methanol Unit Puts into Operation in Shandong

Owned by Akron Fertilizer Group of Russia, a 100 000t/a methanol unit recently put into operation in Heze 荷沢 of Shandong province, eastern China. With a total investment of US$35 million, the unit is operated by Heze subsidiary of Akron Fertilizer Group and the products are mainly oriented to the Chinese market.

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2003/5/23 Gateway to Russia

Akron Holding has acquired 58% of the shares in a Chinese producer of complex and nitrogen fertilizers, Redsun Chemical Co. that produces about $100 million in products a year. Akron is anxious to cut transport costs and consolidate its grip in the complex fertilizer market. However, limited domestic sales don’t enable them to use this effective method of grabbing foreign markets. Akron, the largest Russian nitrogen holding, had to spend equivalent of six months’ production output on the deal.

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2002/4/25 Izvestia

The Akron agrochemical holding is buying a controlling stake in the Chinese plant Redsun Chemical Co, which makes fertilizers. Akron will become an owner of 58 percent of stock of Redsun after it invests $27 to increase production capacity at the company to 400,000 tons a year.

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Russian Nitric Fertilizer
http://peterpalms.com/fertilizer.html

One of the largest, most successful companies producing nitric and compound fertilizers is Akron, formerly "Azot," located in Northwest Russia. The firm also manufactures a range of products of organic synthesis and non- organic chemicals. According to "Expert," in 1995, the company's share in the total Russian production of nitric fertilizers was 23 percent. Akron employs over 4,000 people. Exports represent almost 80 percent of the company's sales with 30 percent of its exports to China, over 20 percent to Thailand; and about 10 percent to Columbia.

China Chemical Weekly 2006/6/26

Shell and CNPC Joins Hands in Refinery Expansion

CNPC and Shell announced on June 22nd, 2006 that two parties have joined hands in Dalian refinery. Shell technology has been used in a 10 million t/a expansion of CNPC's Dalian petrochemical refinery, located in Dalian, Liaoning province, helping increase efficiency and processing capacity.
The new facilities, which include Shell's crude oil distillation and deep-flash vacuum distillation technologies, make the refinery the largest in China with a production capacity of 20.5 million t/a.

2006/6/30　BBC Monitoring

South Korean oil refinery buys Chinese petrochemical company
韓国GS Caltex、中国の石化ＪＶを100%子会社に

South Korea's second-largest oil refiner GS Caltex Corp. said Friday [30 June] it has taken over a Chinese petrochemical company in an effort to make inroads into the country's potentially lucrative market.

GS Caltex said it acquired a 100 per cent stake in Langfang Jiashi Chemical Co. 廊坊佳世(GS)化学工業 for 4.3m dollars. The maker of polypropylene, widely used in products such as textiles and car components, is based in China's special economic zone of Langfang, located between Beijing and the northeastern Chinese port city of Tianjin, it said. "China's polypropylene market is rapidly growing with auto and other related factories rushing in to the nation," head of GS Caltex's petrochemical division Yoo In-yeong said. "Our new unit will not only boost our presence in the Chinese market, but also expand our global market share."

The petrochemical unit, GS Caltex Langfang Plastics Co., has a combined annual production capacity of 2.4m tons（誤り）. GS Caltex plans to revamp the facilities and expand its capacity to 2.9m tons（誤り） by the end of next year. The Chinese company has been a supplier of polypropylene to local production units of major South Korean firms such as Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. GS Caltex set up its first Chinese unit, GS Caltex Qingdao Petroleum Co., to to tap China's petroleum market and launched its first gas station in Qingdao in February.

Asia Chemical Weekly 情報

“Langfang Jiashi Chemical” is partly invested by GS Caltex. The true English name should be Langfang GS Chemical Co. Ltd, which was founded in Feb. 2004 with total investment of USD 40 million.

The technology and process are based on GS Caltex This company produces modified PP and engineering plastics which for auto industry use. Combined capacity is about 20 000 tonne per year; and it planned to expand the total capacity of engineering plastics to 50 000 tonne per year.