[Haichuan Project Updates] Huisheng Engineering wins the EPC contract for a 2.5 million-ton PTA project

This project represents another collaboration between Huisheng Engineering and BP on a PTA project, following the Xinfengming project. Previously, the two parties collaborated for the first time on China’s largest PTA plant to date – the 2.5 million tons per year PTA project of Zhejiang Dushan Energy, owned by Xinfengming Group. The project was started up successfully on October 30, 2019, marking a successful combination of BP’s latest PTA production technology and Huisheng Engineering’s extensive experience in designing PTA projects; this achievement earned high recognition and attention within the industry. The design for the new Fengming Phase II PTA project, with a capacity of 2.5 million tons per year, carried out through cooperation between the two parties, has now been successfully completed.

This post was last edited by Desert Fish on 2020-6-6 20:18. [HaiChuan Project Updates] BP grants a third PTA production license to Dongying Weilian. https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3018101-1-1.html (Source: Huahai Chuanliu – HaiChuan Chemical Forum)

There are several PTA plants, right? BP’s patents prevent the China Textile Research Institute from getting involved in them.

Some foreign companies with their own technology do not like to cooperate with CDIs with a history of issues, fearing that their technology might be leaked.

Does the China Textile Research Institute also have PTA technology? Is it under Sinopec?

With this issue, it’s a bit necessary to divide it among several design institutes

With this issue, it’s a bit necessary to divide it among several design institutes

It has been integrated globally; it claims to possess its own PTA technology, and has built many units in China.

December 02, 2005, 04:46 【Font size: Large, Medium, Small】【Leave a message】【Forum】【Print】【Close】 Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, December 1 (Xu Shousong, Yu Guangxian) – Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. announced on the 1st that it has made a significant breakthrough in achieving domestic production of PTA (purified terephthalic acid), an important chemical raw material that is in severe shortage in China. The process package and complete set of technologies developed by them, with an annual production capacity of 800,000 tons, have passed the technical appraisal conducted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and have reached international advanced levels, thereby breaking for the first time the long-standing monopoly on this technology by a few large foreign companies. 　　Chen Xiaojin, a senior engineer at Shanghai Petrochemical, explained that the company introduced a PTA production facility with an annual capacity of 225,000 tons in 1984. Over the course of 20 years, it continued to pursue a three-step approach of learning, improvement, and innovation, carrying out further development and integrated innovation based on the knowledge acquired. It successfully completed technical upgrades to increase production capacity to 300,000 tons as well as technological innovations that raised this capacity to 400,000 tons. In the end, it developed a domestic production process package for PTA with an annual capacity of 800,000 tons, along with independent set of technologies. In November 2005, this technology passed the evaluation by the Ministry of Science and Technology and reached an internationally advanced level. 　　It is reported that this set of technologies includes 15 proprietary technologies and 3 invention patents, breaking the technical monopoly of foreign companies in the field of polyester raw materials and putting an end to China’s history of relying on imports for PTA technology. At present, this technology has been licensed out and is being put into practical application. It is estimated that costs related to the acquisition of technical patents can be saved by around 190 million yuan, and equipment investment can be reduced by about 140 million yuan. 　　PTA is an important chemical raw material, mainly used in the production of polyester. Polyesters can be made into fibers and films, etc. The resulting products are widely used in industries such as clothing, automotive tire cords, construction, roads, coated fabrics, product packaging, and optical discs. 　　Currently, China’s annual polyester consumption is growing at a rate of 30%. It is estimated that the total domestic demand for polyester in 2005 will be 11.5 million tons, yet production will only reach 6 million tons, resulting in an import rate of over 56%. 　　At present, the complete PTA technology is mainly controlled internationally by companies such as BP in the UK, DuPont in Germany, and Mitsui Oil Chemicals in Japan, while all existing technology and equipment in China are imported. Just for patent fees alone, 30 dollars must be paid to foreign technology holders for each ton of product produced domestically.