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With a total investment of nearly 13.8 billion yuan, Baofeng Energy’s 500,000-ton coal-to-olefins MTO+OCC project has come online. Baofeng Energy’s 200,000-ton/year styrene project, the 500,000-ton coal-to-olefins MTO+OCC project, and the Ningdong Phase III olefins project have all entered the trial production stage, with the 500,000-ton coal-to-olefins MTO+OCC project being fully operational. The methanol and olefins production facilities of the Ningdong Phase III project have been put into trial operation. The production capacity for polyethylene and polypropylene is 900,000 tons per year. The installation of the main equipment is expected to be completed by the end of November, these devices will be connected by the end of December, and products will begin to be produced in January 2024. The Phase III project in Baofeng, Ningxia, utilizes technologies such as space furnace gasification, isothermal shift reaction, Linde low-temperature methanol washing, Davy methanol synthesis process, the DMTO-III technology from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, and KBR olefin separation. The main products produced are 400,000 tons per year of polyethylene, 500,000 tons per year of polypropylene, and 250,000 tons per year of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA). The demand for vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) is growing at a rapid pace, and most new VAM production projects use the ethylene-based method; the next few years will see rapid expansion of VAM production via this method in China.