MITSUI SEEKS PARTNERS FOR CO2-BASED METHANOL PLANT

摘要

Mitsui Chemicals is in discussions with Celanese and Daicel Chemical Industry (Osaka), both leading producers of acetyls, on the possibility of participating in a first commercial-scale methanol plant based on Mitsui's Green House Gases-to-Chemical Resources (GTR) technol- ogy, CW has learned. The process is currently being tested at a pilot plant at Mitsui's Osaka manufacturing complex and it will take another two years to develop, Korehiro Odate, deputy general managerew business development at Mitsui tells CW. Odate was speaking to CW on the sidelines of the third India Chemical Industry Outlook Conference, held recently in Mumbai and organized jointly by CW and the Indian Chemical Council (Mumbai). Daicel and Celanese, or just one of the two companies, would become offtakers of methanol from the commercial GTR-process plant “because Mitsui is not active in the methanol business,” Odate says.