19 months! Changzhou Qimei’s 450,000 tons/year ABS production project has started full-scale operation
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Changzhou Qimei’s 450,000-ton/year ABS production facility has started full-scale operations. On September 8, Changzhou Qimei Chemical announced that its new ABS production plant has begun manufacturing products on a commercial scale, with an annual capacity of 450,000 tons. Full operation is expected to be achieved by December, and the output will mainly supply the market in South China. With this new capacity, Qimei Group’s total annual ABS production capacity reaches 2.6 million tons. Zhangzhou Qimei was established in August 2018, funded by Qimei Industrial, and is located in the Gulei Port Economic Development Zone in Zhangzhou, Fujian. The first phase of ABS production capacity with an annual output of 450,000 tons began construction in November 2019, and was completed in just 19 months. Subsequently, the ABS production capacity will be increased to 600,000 tons per year, along with 350,000 tons per year of PS and 180,000 tons per year of PC; these products will also begin to be produced, and in the future the total production capacity will exceed 1 million tons. The construction of the Chimei ABS factory in Zhangzhou incorporates high-standard safety designs and advanced environmental protection equipment, aiming to create a new generation of high-performance plastic material factory that is energy-efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly.
Zhangzhou Qimei Chemical Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese-invested joint venture established in 2018 with Taiwan’s Qimei Industrial Co., Ltd. as the main investor. It is the second ABS production facility on the Chinese mainland, with an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons of ABS and AS products in total; the first phase has a capacity of 450,000 tons, while the second phase has a capacity of 150,000 tons. The total land area of the project is 623 mu, with a total investment of around 2.64 billion yuan. It is expected that the annual output value of the project once it reaches full capacity will be no less than 4.8 billion yuan. It is reported that for this project, the 450,000-ton/year ABS plant will utilize 9 ABS production lines with a capacity of 50,000 tons each; the 360,000-ton/year AS plant will use 6 AS production lines with a capacity of 60,000 tons each; the 69,000-ton/year PBL plant will rely on 3 PBL production lines with a capacity of 23,000 tons each; the 90,000-ton/year BP plant will employ 3 BP production lines with a capacity of 30,000 tons each; the 10,000-ton/year LSMA plant will use 1 LSMA production line with a capacity of 10,000 tons per year; and the 33,000-ton/year EBA78 plant will have 2 EBA78 production lines, each with a capacity of 16,500 tons per year. Complementary facilities include 2 sets of RTO waste gas treatment systems, 1 above-ground flare, storage areas for raw materials and auxiliary materials, reclaimed water reuse areas, cooling tower areas, a sewage treatment plant, as well as other auxiliary engineering and production management facilities.