In the next few years, the total investment in Chongqing’s petrochemical projects will reach tens of billions of yuan

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In the next few years, the total investment in the project will reach tens of billions of yuan. Our city’s petrochemical industry delegation visited the United States and Germany. The municipal party committee has just returned to Chongqing. * * , Executive Deputy Mayor Huang Qifan introduced that our city will form a new petrochemical industrialization base. Achieve major breakthroughs based on * * Major deployment of petrochemical industry in southwest China. It is reported that, * * Approved to build an 800,000-ton ethylene project in Pengzhou, Sichuan. The project has a total investment of 22 billion yuan and has started construction this year. at the same time, * * It is decided that after the project is completed and put into operation, its downstream products - basic chemical raw materials such as bisphenol A, formaldehyde, propylphenol, propylene glycol, acrylic acid and esters, butyl octanol, will be supplied to our city to develop the middle and lower reaches of the petrochemical industry. This move will bring tens of billions of investment, which is a historic opportunity for our city's petrochemical industry. He visited the United States and Germany and met and held discussions with senior executives of the world's chemical giants - Huntsman Group, BASF, Bayer and Degussa to discuss joint ventures and cooperation in the development of polyurethane (MDI/TDI) and polycarbonate (PC) products in our city. The visit made significant substantial progress. According to the city's chemical industry development plan, polyurethane, polycarbonate and related fine chemical projects will be developed in Changshou Chemical Park. The main raw materials of polyurethane are MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) and TDI (toluene diisocyanate). It has the characteristics of high strength, corrosion resistance, pressure resistance, flexibility and lightness. It is widely used in automobiles, energy-saving building materials, shoemaking, home appliances, furniture, sporting goods and other fields. For example, Lycra in clothing, the insulation layer of building exterior walls, and even the seals of spacecraft are all products with polyurethane as the main raw material, and the market prospects are broad. It is understood that MDI is one of the chemical products with the highest technical threshold. In the past 40 years, only four countries including Germany and the United States have * * 5 multinational companies master its core manufacturing technologies. Starting in 1993, after more than 10 years of exploration, Yantai Wanhua Polyurethane Co., Ltd. finally mastered the core production technology of MDI, making my country one of the countries with independent intellectual property rights in MDI manufacturing technology. * * , On the 8th of this month, Yantai Wanhua’s 160,000-ton-annual MDI plant with an investment of 2.5 billion yuan was successfully put into trial operation and the product rolled off the production line. BASF, Huntsman, Bayer, etc. have successively invested in the construction of bases including MDI/TDI production equipment in Shanghai Caojing Chemical Industrial Zone. The total investment in the project will exceed US$3 billion, of which the MDI/TDI production equipment with an investment of US$1.5 billion will be completed and put into operation this year. According to analysis by Keston, Vice President of Huntsman Group, the projects currently under construction in China can only meet the demand in the last 3-5 years. New production equipment must be installed by 2010 to meet the growing market demand. “Chongqing has many favorable conditions for the construction of polyurethane projects, including strong market radiation ability, abundant natural gas and energy resources, superior transportation conditions, good chemical industry foundation, and sufficient professional talents. * * policy support. ”Huang Qifan said that the production of polyurethane can extend the industrial chain. Natural gas can be used to produce phenylene ammonia. Paraformaldehyde can be developed for use in pesticides, resins, medicine and other fields. High value-added products can be developed at the back end.