Jiangsu Sailboat postpones start-up of new methanol-to-olefins plant

摘要

China's Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Co has delayed start-up of its new methanol-to-olefins (MTO) plant being built in Lianyungang, China, to mid-2016. The project, originally scheduled to begin production in 2015, has a design capacity of 833,000 tonnes/y of ethylene and propylene, based on UOP's process, and will provide feedstock to downstream units producing 4 M tonnes/y of petrochemical products. Sailboat's plant start-up was postponed because of the delayed arrival of key facilities that are now expected at end-2015.