Express delivery! Plans for the commissioning of new polyethylene production facilities at home and abroad in 2019

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2018 is coming to an end, and the construction of new polyethylene production facilities both domestically and internationally is set to continue at a rapid pace in 2019. Although the global polyethylene market is currently weak, statistics show that the capacity of these new facilities will exceed 8 million tons per year in 2019. Domestic section: Inner Mongolia Jutai Energy. This company is a subsidiary of Jutai Energy Inner Mongolia Co., Ltd.; it is located in the Dalu New Area of Zhunqi County, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This project is related to the deep processing of methanol. Jiutai Energy initially plans to launch a coal-based full-density plant with an annual capacity of 250,000 tons and a polypropylene plant with an annual capacity of 350,000 tons in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, by the end of 2018. Market sources estimate that the full commissioning and startup of Jutai Energy’s coal-based polymer plant is expected to take until the first quarter of 2019. Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd.’s 20 million tons per year integrated refining and chemical complex is located by the sea at the western end of the Dalian Changxing Island Economic Zone. In terms of polyolefins, this includes HDPE plants with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year, as well as LyondellBasell’s Hostalen ACP polyethylene production technology ； It involves a polypropylene (PP) plant with an annual capacity of 450,000 tons, utilizing Grasys’ UNIPOL PP process technology. Operation is scheduled to begin in 2019, with the products to be sold and distributed uniformly by Sinopec North China Sales Company. Zhejiang Petrochemical’s 40 million tons per year integrated refining and chemical processing facility is located in the port area of Daishan, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, within the supporting service terminal zone of the Zhoushan Green Petrochemical Base. The downstream polyolefin facilities for this project include 1.42 million tons per year of ethylene and 700,000 tons per year of propylene; two Ineos polypropylene plants with a capacity of 450,000 tons per plant; a full-density polyethylene plant with a capacity of 450,000 tons per year; and an Ineos high-density polyethylene plant with a capacity of 300,000 tons per year. Commissioning of these facilities is initially planned for mid-2019. The 600,000-ton per year olefins project at the beautiful Ganhe River in Qinghai: This project uses methanol produced by enterprises in the Ganhe Industrial Park of the Xining Economic and Technological Development Zone as raw material. Its construction scale includes 1.8 million tons per year of methanol-to-olefins production, 300,000 tons per year of polyethylene production, 400,000 tons per year of polypropylene production, along with the necessary utility systems, auxiliary facilities, and off-site infrastructure. Production is initially planned to begin in 2019. Zhongan United Coal Chemical Phase I: This project is located in Huainan City, Anhui Province. The Zhongan United Coal-to-Chemicals Integration Project is divided into two phases: Phase 1 involves the construction of a facility capable of producing 1.7 million tons per year of coal-based methanol, as well as converted olefins and related products. It also includes the construction of a coal mine with an output of 4 million tons per year, along with facilities for producing 350,000 tons per year of linear low-density polyethylene and 350,000 tons per year of polypropylene. Commissioning of this phase is scheduled for 2019. Phase II of the project will construct a coal-to-ethylene glycol plant with an annual capacity of 600,000 tons, along with a coal mine featuring an annual production capacity of 4 million tons. Ningxia Baofeng Phase II: Ningxia Baofeng Energy’s 600,000 tons per year olefin production project is located in Area A of the Linhe Comprehensive Project Zone within the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base. This project involves the construction of a 2.2 million tons per year coke gasification methanol production facility, a 600,000 tons per year methanol to olefins conversion facility, a 300,000 tons per year polyethylene production facility, and a 300,000 tons per year polypropylene production facility. Commissioning of these facilities is scheduled for the second half of 2019. International section: It is reported that the plants owned by Formosa Plastics and Sasol in the United States were originally scheduled to begin operations in 2018, but the weak global polyolefin market, along with difficulties in exporting polyethylene LLDPE and HDPE from the U.S. to the Chinese market, have led to a delay in starting up these plants until the first or second quarter of 2019. Looking at the capacity expansion in polyethylene in 2019, the new production capacity for low-density polyethylene was significantly lower than that of other types. Additionally, U.S. sanctions on Iran are likely to affect the import of low-density polyethylene products; therefore, low-density polyethylene is expected to perform better than other types in 2019. *This article is compiled from the Internet