China's Yisheng to start up new PTA plant as PX shortages ease

摘要

Singapore-China's Zhejiang Yisheng Petrochemical will start up its second purified terephthalic acid plant in the second-half of November 2006,a company source said September 18.The plant,located in Ningbo,China,will have capacity of 650,000 mt/year of PTA.It is located near Zhejiang Yisheng's existing PTA plant,which,following a debottlenecking earlier this year,has a production capacity of 660,000 mt/year of PTA.