Construction begins on 3 projects at the pilot testing base of the Gansu Chemical Industry Research Institute

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On September 20, the signing ceremony and inauguration of the Framework Cooperation Agreement for China National Petroleum’s Central-Western Logistics Distribution Base took place at the Lanzhou Landport. The base aims to become a hub for the petrochemical industry along the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as a new highland for modern logistics. On the same day, the unveiling ceremony of the Gansu Chemical Industry Research Institute and the groundbreaking ceremony for its pilot plant base also took place in Xigu District. At the ceremony, China Petroleum Refining and New Materials Company successively signed framework cooperation agreements with Lanzhou City and China Railway Lanzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd. Under the agreement, the three parties will leverage Lanzhou’s geographical advantage of serving as a link between the east and west and connecting the south and north, as well as its multimodal transport infrastructure involving railways and highways. While enhancing the capacity for product sales and transportation, they aim to develop a logistics hub in the central and western regions that integrates warehousing, distribution, and trading. Following the signing ceremony, attending guests jointly witnessed the unveiling of the Central and Western China Logistics Distribution Base for Petrochemical Products. Covering an area of 3,000 mu, the base has seen the completion of 10 railway loading/unloading lines, 200,000 square meters of intelligent warehouses, and dedicated warehouses for hazardous chemicals. It can provide customers with “one-stop” supply chain solutions. Taking 10-year intervals as a unit, the Gansu Chemical Industry Research Institute has set short-, medium-, and long-term goals. It aims to explore a new integrated model encompassing pilot testing, technology transfer, and talent cultivation. In the short term, it seeks to establish a pilot test base, launch its first batch of key projects, and improve its corporate governance structure as well as its industry-university-research cooperation network. In the medium term, break through key core technologies, achieve industrial conversion of results, and develop products with market competitiveness. Over the long term, we will develop industrial chain clusters to achieve a high level of self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, and create a domestically leading platform for innovation and entrepreneurship. In terms of project implementation, the pilot plant will focus on three key projects in 2025: the project for the isomerization of pseudocumene into mesitylene. Upon completion, it is expected to generate an additional output value of 100 million yuan. The products will be supplied primarily to local chemical enterprises such as Gansu Qingyu Group, thereby helping to strengthen and complement the industrial chain. The pilot project on norbornene synthesis focuses on breaking through key technologies such as the localization of catalysts and optimization of reaction processes, thereby ending foreign technological monopolies. The project to produce high-purity isopentane from ether-treated C5 fractions involves an investment of 70 million yuan to construct a facility capable of producing 10,000 tons of high-purity isopentane per year; it is expected to generate an additional output value of 80 million yuan. In 2026, four key projects, including the production of tert-butyl acrylate, will be prioritized for development. This will comprehensively enhance the efficiency of petrochemical resource utilization, promote coordinated regional industrial development, and facilitate the integration, specialization, refinement, green transformation, and innovation-driven growth of the chemical industry, thereby laying a solid foundation for its long-term development.