Xingfengming starts up Pinghu PTA

Chinese polyester producer Xinfengming is starting up its new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant at Pinghu in east China's Zhejiang province.

This PTA plant with a nameplate capacity of 2.2mn t/yr has two production trains each of 1.1mn t/yr. One of the two trains has started up and Xinfengming plans to feed paraxylene into this unit today.

The plant started construction in early 2018, with total investment of 4bn yuan ($570mn) and is targeting to start commercial operations by the end of 2019.

Xinfengming is China third-largest polyester producer with a polymerization capacity of more than 4mn t/yr, although it had no PTA production before the start-up of the Pinghu plant.