Shanghai
Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd. http://www.scacc.com/e_INDEX.HTM
Shanghai Chlor-Alkali
Chemical Co., Ltd. was founded on July, 1992. It’s name was Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Complex.
There are 5 billion RMB belong to SCAC, presently. It is one of
520 national key enterprise.
There are 5107 people in
the company. Among them, various specialized technologists are
count to 918 and it’s the
18 percent of the total.
SCAC. Is located in
Shanghai Wujing Chemical Industrial Region. The company occupies
a ground area of over 160 hectares. Because besiding the Huangpu
River, it has two ten thousand tons docks where foreign ships
could moor at and five special lines of railway. There is a
highway net around the company, so the transportation is very
convenient.
The company to research
new products and study science and technology founded the state
level technologic center.
SCAC had 25 sets of modern productive equipment. Many of them are
import. By technology transformation and renewal of many years,
the equipment and manufacture technology are as developed as
those same kind companies in the world.
The company produces and
sells caustic soda, chlorine, fluorine products, and plastic
resin. These products are totaling 20 categories and 40
varieties. Among them, the output of the mainly products every
year like these: caustic soda is 400,000 T, vinyl chloride
is 300,000T, PVC resin is 320,000T,hydrochloric acid is 250,000T.The company offered about 1,500,000T
various chemical products to society every year.
The products of the
company are well sold not only in Middle-China and Eastern-China,
but also in the countries and regions of South East Asia, Japan,
Korea, Australia, South Africa and Euro-America etc. With the
change of the market, the total amount of sales remains between
2.3 billion and 2.8 billion.
In 1994,the company passed
the ISO9002 Quality System certificate. And she still keeps the
honor today. In AUG. 2002, the company passed the ISO 14001
Environment Management System Certificate. Polyvinyl chloride
with Shenfeng brand and 48% IM technology liquid caustic soda
with Dianhua brand are awarded as the products of Shanghai famous
brand. The company was honored the title of Shanghai High-new
Technique Enterprise by Shanghai Municipal Government.
In present, SCAC is doing
a strategic development in Shanghai chemical industry zone at
Shanghai Caojin area, establishing the projects of Caustic Soda,
VCM and PVC. The company would like to contact with BAYER and
BASF companies who are the famous chemical company in the world
to establish the big equipment of poly-carbonate and methyl
di-p-phenylene iso-cyanate facilities.
SCAC has obtained the
title of “ The Best CI
Enterprise of Industry”. “Being the first class enterprise through
self motivation” is company’s spirit. “ Making great effort to develop China and
developing our company together with China” is company’s management concept.
China's SCAC decide to back integrated PVC projects in two phases
Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical (SCAC) has decided to pursue its back-integrated polyvinyl chloride (PVC) project in Caojing, Shanghai, China, in two phases instead of one, according to a company source.
The source said the company would build a 280 000 tonne/year ethylene dichloride (EDC) plant in the first phase. That would be followed by vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) and PVC plants, each with a capacity of 300 000 tonne/year. Construction work has started on the EDC plant, which is scheduled to come onstream in June 2005, the source said. This would coincide with the startup of BP's joint-venture cracker project, from which SCAC would obtain its ethylene feedstock. The VCM and PVC units would come onstream in 2008, he added. SCAC had earlier planned to bring its whole complex onstream in one phase in H2 2005. At one stage it had considered stopping at EDC or VCM production. The source explained that having VCM and PVC production in the second phase would give the company more time to monitor domestic supply and demand as many PVC projects have been planned in China. The company decided to produce EDC first as there is a strong demand for it. Part of the EDC would be used captively, and the balance sold on the local market, he added. SCAC currently sources ethylene from Shanghai Petrochemical Co and imports some supplies to feed its EDC plant in Wujing. The company is due to start up its expanded 350 000 tonne/year PVC plant in Wujing this week following a turnaround. The plant had an original capacity of 280 000 tonne/year.
石油化学新報 2003/10/8
中国・槍州化工、大型塩ビ設備を2005年夏増設〜三井物産も参画へ
中国の槍州化工は、河北省槍州で検討してきた大型塩ビ増設計画の大枠を固めた。生産能力はＶＣＭ(塩ビモノマー)、ＰＶＣ(塩ビ樹脂)各年産４０万トンで、２００５年８月完成を目指す。原料のＥＤＣ(二塩化エチレン)とエチレンは外部購入する。槍州化工はこれまで塩ビ事業を三井物産との合弁会社である槍井化工(槍州化工75%出資)を通じて展開しており、今回の増設計画にも三井物産が参画する方向で詳細を詰める。設備の設計・施工は仏テクニップが約5,O00万ドルで受注した。
一方の三井物産は中国・河北省槍州で、98年8月にＥＤＣ法によるＶＣＭ〜ＰＶＣ事業会社(現在の槍井化工)に25%出資し、99年4月から12万トンのＶＣＭ、15万トンのＰＶＣ設備の操業を開始。その後、槍州化工が単独で展開していた旧来のカーバイド法によるＶＣＭ、ＰＶＣ設備を傘下に加え、現在の生産能力はＶＣＭ、ＰＶＣ各23万トンとなっている。今回の大型設備の参画方法については従来の槍井化工に運営させるのか、新たな塩ビ事業会社を設立するのかなどを含めて検討しており、今年中にも結論を出す。
中国ではＰＶＣ需要がパイブや窓枠など建設資材向けを中心に急拡大しているにもかかわらず、外資による塩ビ新増設計画は原料調達などがネックとなって少ない。現在のところ日系企業で直接出資により塩ビ事業を展開しているのは三井物産だけであり、近くＰＶＣ事業化を決定する予定の東ソーが日系メーカーでは初めてとなる見通し。
《China Chemical Week》Headlines (2003/10/24)
PVC makers'' worries loom
by Liu Fangbin
http://www.sinocheminfo.com/topnews/w200310241006.htm
China has started to collect
anti-dumping duties against imported polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
originating in the US, ROK, Japan, Russia and China's Taiwan. The
move helps regulate the domestic PVC market and provide sound
opportunity for the development of domestic makers. However,
executives of quite a few PVC makers did not feel relaxed at the
Wuhan meeting of the China Chloralkali Industry Association that
ended on October 16.
The anti-dumping investigation which started on February 29, 2002
and the preliminary judgment made in May this year substantially
boosted the performance of domestic PVC makers. Annual reports of
four listed PVC companies show Jinhua Chloralkali reduced losses
by RMB53m in the first half of this year compared with RMB74.81m
losses a year ago, Beijing No 2 Chemical Co posted a net profit
growth of 102% in the first-half, Cangzhou Chemical increased its
profits by 92.39%, and Shanghai Chloralkali reported a
considerable growth.
The sound PVC production and sales situation led by the
anti-dumping campaign is igniting a new wave of investment in
capacity expansion. Overseas
majors are shifting their China-oriented export strategy to
production in China while domestic enterprises are busy with
expansion. LG Chemicals PVC capacity in Tianjin has reached
340,000t/a and they are planning to expand the capacity to
1.1mt/a by 2010. Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics 300,000t/a project
in Ningbo in entering the final stage, with trial run and
operation slated for this month. At the same time, the company
has finished its market survey of the western region on the
mainland and is currently assessing its 500,000t/a PVC project.
Based on the 2002 import statistics, the PVC anti-dumping move is
expected to cause a decline in imports by around 500,000t/a. It
is estimated that domestic PVC capacity will outnumber 8mt
by 2005, accounting for
one-third of the global new capacity. The capacity expansion rate
will exceed 30%, the average annual new capacity will be more
than 1mt, much faster than domestic demand growth.
The carbide
process is largely applied in the domestic PVC production, which
makes up 53.4% of the total
capacity, and the percentage is still expanding. In the long run,
the problems of power shortage and environmental protection will
remain unsolved caused by the dramatic expansion of the
carbide-process PVC capacity. The dwindling imports are
escalating PVC prices on the domestic market, which have exceeded
RMB7,000/t. Excessive PVC hikes might lead to a dwindling
domestic PVC market and declining exports.
2003/11/14 China Chemical
Reporter
Specialty PVC Project to be Constructed in Shenyang (瀋陽)
http://www.ccr.com.cn/news_view.asp?ID=372
Shenyang Chemical Industrial Co.,
Ltd.（瀋陽化工） has
recently decided to construct a 30 000 t/a joint venture specialty PVC
(paste) project. The project
will use the micro-suspension process. It has a total investment
of RMB184.3 million and a construction period of 18 months and
will start production in December 2004.
According to the statistics made by relevant departments, the
output of specialty PVC in China was around 150 000 tons in 2002
and the import amount was more than 100 000 tons. The demand is
much higher than the output. The rapid development of automobile,
electronic, construction, coating and glove sectors, in
particular, has led to a drastic demand increase of specialty and
special PVC. The demand in the domestic market will at least be
more than 350 000 tons in 2010. Due to restrictions in factors
such as production technology, however, the domestic output of
specialty PVC can not meet the need in different downstream
products.
Specialty PVC is a leading product in Shenyang Chemical
Industrial Co., Ltd. The capacity is 45 000 t/a (including the capacity of the 10 000 t/a
expansion unit to be soon completed) and the output holds the
first place in China, accounting for 23% of the national total in
2002. The company has acquired the technology for the production
of specialty and special PVC to replace imports. Using the
advantages of the company in process technology, production
experience, engineering management, production site and utilities
to construct a 30 000 t/a specialty PVC project can help meet the
demand in the domestic market.
EDC-VCM-PVC Conference:
China to become PVC exporter after 2008
The dramatic growth of China's
PVC production capacity over the next five years would turn it
from being a net importer of PVC resin to becoming a net exporter
after 2008, commented several panelists on the first day of the
4th China/Asia EDC-VCM-PVC Markets conference held at the
Intercontinental Pudong Hotel in Shanghai, China.
The panelists, from three of China's largest PVC manufacturers,
included Shanghai Chlor Alkali Co Director of Sales and
Marketing, He Gang; Cangzhou Chemical Industry Deputy General
Manager of Supply and Sales, Gao Jixuan; and Qilu Petrochemical
Corp Head of Market Information, Liu Changgong.
Estimates from the three on precisely when China would begin
exporting, differed but the consensus was that after the 2008
Olympics, demand from the construction sector would soften and
China's PVC balance would be in a surplus.
2004/3/16 China Chemical Reporter
PVC project started construction in Shanghai
http://www.ccr.com.cn/news_view.asp?ID=408
On March 2, the first phase of
300 000 t/a PVC project broke the ground in Shanghai Chemical
Industry Park. This project is scheduled to complete construction
at the end of 2005 and put on stream in the H1 of 2006. Shanghai
caustic soda and PVC project is invested by Shanghai Tianyuan
Huasheng Chemical Co Ltd 上海天原華勝化工公司、
as an important matching project to
900 000 t/a ethylene program, which will not only consume the
products of upstream SECCO ethylene project but also can satisfy the demand of
downstream BASF MDI/TDI project for chlorine. In addition it can absorb
and make use of chlorine hydride, the byproduct of MDI/TDI unit.
2004-2-20 Asia Chemical Weekly
China's Runhua to go ahead with VCM, PVC project in Jiangsu 江蘇省江陰
China's Jiangyin Runhua Chemical
Products Co is to build a 500 000 tonne/year vinyl chloride
monomer (VCM) unit and a 300 000 tonne/year polyvinyl chloride
(PVC) unit, according to a company source.
The Chinese government has approved the Rmb1.75bn
($211.4m/Euro165.6m) integrated project in Jiangyin, Jiangsu,
China.
Talks on the project were being held with potential licensors,
said the source, who added that discussions were also being held
with a potential domestic customer interested in taking a stake
in the project.
She said design work had started and land had been secured for
the project. Construction work is scheduled to start this year,
with startup slated for 2006.
Runhua will import ethylene dichloride (EDC) feedstock to feed
the planned VCM unit. Talks are being held with potential EDC
suppliers.
The project will be Runhua's first foray into VCM-PVC production.
It currently produces only expandable polystyrene (PS).
The company, a Sino-Hongkong joint venture, is looking at
expanding its range of petrochemical products. The company is
also building a port that will be able to handle 30 000 tonne of
chemicals and store 160 000 tonne of liquid chemicals. The new
facilities will be ready this year.
November 04, 2004 Solvay
Solvay launches its vinyls technology in China with
ground-breaking license agreement
http://www.solvay.com/services/newsfrompo/0,,24397-2-0,00.htm
Fast growing market calls for
further engineering projects 江蘇省泰興
Solvay SA announces today that it
has signed a license agreement to supply its vinyl chloride monomer
technology to Singpu Chemical Industries
Co., Ltd. for the
construction of a new production unit in Taixing (Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China). The plant is
scheduled to be operational in the first half of 2006, with an
annual production capacity of 200 kilotons.
After an intense international competition, Solvay has won a
contract to license out its proprietary technology and to provide
engineering services, technical assistance as well as equipment
to Singpu Chemical Industries. The financial terms of the
agreement will not be disclosed.
The Chinese market for vinyl polymers has grown by an average of
15% over the past five years and is expected to reach a total
volume of some 7 million tons of PVC in 2004 - which accounts for
almost one quarter of the world market. This spectacular growth
has been met, for the most part, by increased imports. As demand
is set to continue rising, China is expected to curb its current
deficit through a significant number of capacity expansion plans
in its domestic vinyl production chain.
“The agreement with Singpu
marks our commercial breakthrough on the Chinese market for vinyl
technologies,” commented
Luigi Belli, member of Solvay's Executive Committee and General
Manager for Research and Technology. “We strongly believe that we are now in a
position to grow our licensing business in China; the industry is
developing at a spectacular rate and we are willing to supply
expertise covering most of the vinyl production chain,” he said.
“We are pleased to announce
this agreement, which will enable us to come on stream quickly
and serve the Chinese market with vinyl products of international
quality standards,” said
Wang Xiao Hua, General Manager of Singpu Chemicals. “Solvay scored high in all of our selection
criteria and we were impressed by their technical expertise and
reactivity,” he added.
Singpu Chemical Industries Co., Ltd - a 100% subsidiary of
Singapore-based Singpu Chemicals - is a major chemical producer
in Jiangsu province, the People's Republic of China (PRC). Backed
by a 10-year track record, Singpu Chemicals manufactures and
sells chemical raw materials, including chlor-alkali products and
related downstream products such as aniline. The company is the second largest producer
of aniline in the PRC.
Solvay is an international chemical and pharmaceutical group with
headquarters in Brussels. It employs more than 30,000 people in
50 countries. In 2003 its consolidated sales amounted to EUR 7.6
billion generated by its three activity sectors: Chemicals,
Plastics and Pharmaceuticals. Solvay is listed on the Euronext
100 index of top European companies. Details are available at www.solvay.com.
Singpu Chemicals http://www.singpu.com/weDo.htm
Singpu Chemicals is a
Singapore-incorporated chemical company with operations based
solely in the PRC catering to the China market.
Through our two subsidiaries, wholly-owned Singpu Chemical
Industries (Taixing) Co., Ltd, and 80%-owned Singpu Chemical
Industries (Yancheng) Co., Ltd. we are principally engaged in the
manufacture and sale of chemical products such as caustic soda,
chlorine, hydrogen, aniline, nitrobenzene, p-nitrochlorobenzene,
o-nitrochlorobenzene, and hydrochloric acid. 泰興、塩城
Since we commenced operations in
1994, we have grown rapidly to be one of the largest producers of
aniline and ion-membrane caustic soda in the Jiangsu Province,
and the largest chemical raw materials producer in the China Fine
Chemical Industry Taixing Park ("CFCITP"), a
development zone dedicated to the fine chemical industry in the
Jiangsu Province, PRC.
Our ability to combine our trademark service with the best
quality products at the most competitive prices to meet the needs
of our customers has supported our efforts in establishing a
strong track record in the PRC over the years.
Platts 2005/3/9
Formosa to operate Ningbo PVC plant at 70% until demand firms
Formosa planned to operate its new 300,000 mt/yr PVC plant in
Ningbo, China at reduced rates until domestic demand strengthens
in China, a source close to the company said Wednesday.
The new unit was started up in the beginning of March but was only operating at about 73% capacity. Formosa offered PVC from the plant at Yuan 8,200/mt ex-works but had received few orders from buyers as the mainstream VCM-based PVC price was at about Yuan 7,900/mt ex-works and lower for carbide-based PVC, the source added.
China's Zhongtai Chemical
to start up new PVC unit 新疆中泰化工
Xinjiang Zhongtai
Chemical Co of northwest China Xinjiang Ugyur Autonomous Region
is set to start up a new PVC unit with a capacity of 600,000 mt/yr in April, according to a source
from the company.
The unit is set to run at 20% capacity at first, gradually
increasing to 98% over three and a half years. The company now
has a PVC capacity of 140,000 mt/yr and is expected improve to
900,000 mt/yr when the newly added capacity is brought on line
and costs get streamlined.
The new unit is carbide based but will switch to ethylene based
technology in the coming years. The company produces most of the
feedstock itself, with a minor portion to be bought from
neighboring Gansu 甘粛省 Province in northwest China. About
60% of their PVC products are sold on domestic markets, and the
remaining 40% are exported to Russia and other middle-Asian
countries.
Transportation cost has increased by about $20/mt since last
November due to the fact that railway transportation is getting
tighter, the source said. However the freight hike would not
greatly affect Zhongtai's PVC prices.
China's carbide-based PVC remains competitive: Tangshan Sanyou
China's carbide-based
polyvinyl chloride remained competitive compared with
ethylene-based PVC despite rising coal and power costs, said
Antares Wang Gang, General Manager of Tangshan Sanyou International
Industry,
Thursday. 唐山三友化工
In 2006, the
production cost of carbide-based PVC was estimated at Yuan
5,063/mt, while for ethylene-based PVC it was Yuan 7,487/mt.
Supplies of coal, a feedstock for carbide-based PVC, were
sufficient but it was difficult to secure ethylene due to
logistics, Wang Gang said.
As of March 2007, production cost of carbide-based PVC had risen
to Yuan 5,500/mt with sales prices around Yuan 6,600/mt,
meanwhile the production cost of ethylene-based PVC had fallen to
Yuan 6,400/mt, compared with selling price of Yuan 7,000/mt. In
addition to be cheaper, carbide-based PVC was much simpler to
produce than ethylene-based PVC, he said.
This was however reflected in the quality of the end-product as
carbide-based PVC tends to be "not very good" because
producers tend to be small and it was difficult for them to reach
high-quality ethylene-based PVC feedstock, such as vinyl chloride
monomer.
Wang added that due to possible pollution by carbide-based PVC
production as well as financial difficulties, the expansion of
carbide-based PVC had started slowing.
Jerry Guao Xiaojun, business division manager at Shanghai
Chlor-Alkali, said operations at China's PVC producers were
sometimes inefficient because most of them are often small-scale
and non-integrated producers. Average production capacity of
China's PVC producers was only 110,000 mt/year, Guao said when
speaking at the same conference.
Guao said it was necessary for the producers to become
nation-wide operators rather than region-wide in order to improve
cost efficiency.
China PVC industry takes on India, Turkey duties
China’s Chlor-Alkali Industry
Association is leading its members to fight anti-dumping cases in
India and Turkey targeted at Chinese polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
imports, an official from the association said on Friday.
India started an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese imports
on 28 June, he added. Twelve Chinese companies were involved, but
one of them decided not to fight the case.
Turkey on Tuesday imposed a $320/tonne anti-dumping deposit on
Chinese imports. Investigations would take about nine months and
more than ten companies could respond to the lawsuit, the
official said.
The hefty deposit would make it unprofitable for Chinese
producers to export during the investigation period, he added.
“India
and Turkey are the two largest PVC export destinations for
Chinese producers. We will not give up easily,”
the official said.
Besides finding legal help for the companies, the association is
also gathering support from processors in India and Turkey, he
added
“We
have been in touch with Indian processors who support us as the
country cannot produce enough PVC for its own use.”
The association is
also trying to fight for China to be recognised as a market
economy.
Without the market economy status, India will be judging its case
based on Taiwan’s PVC cost structure, the official
said.
This would be unfair to Chinese producers as they use much
cheaper calcium carbide feedstock, unlike Taiwan which uses
ethylene, he added.
A major Chinese producer said it was still too early to say if it
will stop exports to Turkey and India.
“We’re still considering what to do.
It will have less impact on us as our export quantity is not
huge,” he added.
China currently exports its PVC to more than 80 countries and it
could face more antidumping suits in the future as exports are
increasing rapidly, the association official and a consultant
said.
“Chinese
PVC is an easy target for anti-dumping as it has a special cost
structure which is much lower than ethylene-based products,”
the consultant
said.
The antidumping cases will have an impact on producers as it
would be difficult to divert the exports, especially to more
developed countries as they require higher quality products, he
added.
However, the association is stepping up efforts to increase
exports to other countries such as South Africa, the official
said.
LG Chem Builds Plant for PVC Raw Materials in China
LG Chem, the top South
Korean chemicals maker, said on Friday that it has built a plant
for PVC (polyvinyl chloride) raw materials in China at a cost of
$300 million (281 billion won), to directly produce plastics in
the neighboring country.
(ceremony to mark the completion of a plant for PVC materials on
Sep. 6)
LG
Bohai, the
firm’s Chinese unit, has completed
construction of the plant on a 500,000 square meter site in
Tianjin Province for production of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM)
and ethylene dichloride (EDC), the two main ingredients for PVC.
Company officials expected the Chinese plant will produce about 350,000 tons of
VCM and 300,000 tons of
EDC per
year, bringing the company’s annual PVC output to a total of
920,000 tons, the world's sixth largest in capacity.
``We aim to expand the annual PVC production at the Chinese plant
up
to 400,000 tons
(from 340,000tons) by 2008, a company spokesman said. Currently,
LG Chem has an annual capacity of 580,000 tons at home.
PVC is a key building block used to produce plastics. PVC demand
in China has been soaring at an average of 13 percent annually,
riding on high growth rates in recent years, to top 10 million
tons in 2006.
LG Bohai will receive ethylene from LG Chem’s Daesan factory and produce VCM, all of which will
be delivered to LG Dagu, the South Korean chemical
company’s PVC unit in China, according to
the spokesman.
``LG Chem strengthened its global competitiveness with the LG
Bohai plant, which completed the vertical management system for
the PVC business in China,’’ LG Chem President & CEO Kim
Bahn-suk said in a completion ceremony in Tianjin.