DATE : 2014-09-01
China’s Sinopec Great Wall Energy and Chemical Co is running its new 450,000 tonne/year vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant in Yinchuan at 20% capacity, after conducting trial runs at the unit on 26 August, a company official said on Monday.
“We started the rectification device on 27th and the on-spec product was available last weekend,” the official added.
The company’s downstream 100,000 tonne/year polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) unit at the same site will undergo test runs in mid-September and some of the VAM output from the new VAM plant would be used as material,according to the official.
The official estimated that on-spec products could be available to China’s domestic market by the end of September.
Sinopec Great Wall Energy and Chemical Co is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Petrochemical Co.
SOURCE Icis News