Chinese private-sector producer Lianyungang Petrochemical is starting up its second 910,000 t/yr MEG production line at Lianyungang in east China's Jiangsu province. On-specification production should be achieved in one or two days if operations run smoothly.
Lianyungang Petrochemical started up the first MEG line in late April, along with a 400,000 t/yr high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit that are both currently running at 70-80pc.
The company is the subsidiary of Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical, which invested 33.5bn yuan ($5.3bn) to build two 1.6mn t/yr ethane crackers with downstream facilities in 2018. Its phase one project includes a 1.6mn t/yr ethane cracker, a 400,000 t/yr HDPE unit and two 720,000/910,000 t/yr ethylene oxide/MEG units that started construction in November 2018 and was completed by the end of 2020.
