Huizhou Boké plans to build a 100,000-ton solid maleic anhydride production facility

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Huizhou Boko plans to build a production facility for 100,000 tons of solid maleic anhydride. Recently, an announcement was made regarding the acceptance of the environmental impact assessment report for Huizhou Boko Environmental New Materials Co., Ltd.’s project aimed at producing 100,000 tons of maleic anhydride per year. The origin of this project: According to research conducted by Boko Company, China’s current production capacity for maleic anhydride is 1.68 million tons per year. As industries that utilize maleic anhydride continue to develop, more new or expanded production facilities for this substance will be built, which will significantly increase China’s production capacity and intensify competition in the market. Furthermore, driven by **environmental policies and the ongoing advancement of integrated supply chain projects, the integrated development of maleic anhydride-1,4-butanediol-polyterephthalate-butylene adipate terephthalate/polybutylene succinate (PBAT/PBS) will become a new area of growth in the field of maleic anhydride. To this end, Boko Company integrated some of the maleic anhydride it produces with some of the liquid maleic anhydride products manufactured by Huizhou Yuxin New Materials Co., Ltd., converting them into solid maleic anhydride products. Solid maleic anhydride can be transported over a wider range and offers greater market flexibility. This project will install a maleic anhydride granulation production line in the intermediate warehouse located in the former filling workshop on the southeast side of the factory complex (with its floor count increased from 1 to 4). All other utility systems will make use of those already in place. Upon completion of the expansion, the annual production capacity of solid maleic anhydride will increase by 100,000 tons, and the additional building area will be 948.91 m2. The total land area occupied by the factory will remain unchanged after the expansion, with a total building area of 68,081.77 m2. The total investment for the project is 24.267 million yuan, with 1.9944 million yuan allocated to environmental protection measures. The project plans to hire 13 new employees, all of whom will not reside on the factory premises. They will work 350 days per year, following a four-shift, two-shift rotation system with a 12-hour working day, and a rotating rest schedule will be in place. Huizhou Bokuo Environmental Protection New Materials Co., Ltd. is located within the Huizhou New Materials Industrial Park, with geographic coordinates of N22.895761°, E114.603348°. The total area of the factory complex is 394,996.02 m2, while the building area is 67,332.86 m2. The factory complex houses a 60,000-ton/year fully biodegradable plastic PBAT production facility, a 20,000-ton/year PBAT modification plant, a 500-ton/year maleic anhydride catalyst production unit, a 1,500-ton/year copper-based catalyst plant and a 300-ton/year precious metal catalyst plant, in addition to Phase I of the Bokexin New Materials light hydrocarbon comprehensive utilization project. Among them, the projects that have been constructed and tested include the 500-ton/year maleic anhydride catalyst project and the 60,000-ton/year fully biodegradable plastic PBAT project; those that have been approved and are under construction are the 20,000-ton/year PBAT modification project, the 1,500-ton/year copper-based catalyst project and the 300-ton/year precious metal catalyst project, as well as Phase 1 of the new material light hydrocarbon comprehensive utilization project. The approved projects mainly produce biodegradable PBAT pellets, **furan (THF), oligomers, maleic anhydride, maleic anhydride catalysts, crude isobutanol, refined isobutanol, dimethyl succinate (DMS), 1,4-butanediol (BDO), polybutylene succinate (PBS), poly**furan (PTMEG) and other products.