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BASF Zhangiang Verbund Site Progress News

◾️ Zhanjiang, China | 6^th Sep 2022 | BASF inaugurates the first plant of its new Zhanjiang Verbund site

BASF is inaugurating  the first plant of its Zhanjiang Verbund site today. It will supply an additional capacity of 60,000 metric tons of engineering plastics compounds per year in China, bringing BASF’s total capacity of engineering plastics in Asia Pacific to 420,000 metric tons from 2023. The new plant will enable BASF to meet the growing demand of its customers, particularly in the automotive and electronics industries.

◾️ Linde Press Releases, 8^th Feb 2023, Linde Engineering Signed Agreement to Build a Synthesis Gas Plant for BASF in China

Linde Engineering will implement the newly awarded contract in a consortium together with its Chinese partner East China Engineering Science and Technology Co., Ltd (ECEC). The two companies have previously worked together in the design and construction of several Rectisol^® Acid Gas Removal units in China. For the new BASF project Linde will be acting as consortium leader, including the provision of basic engineering and key equipment. ECEC will be responsible for the detailed design and the construction.

◾️The Paper | 4^th Sep 2023 | BASF starts construction of syngas plant at its integrated Zhanjiang site, scheduled to start production in 2025

BASF China's official website reported on September 4 that the syngas unit at BASF's integrated base in Zhanjiang has broken ground. This world-class syngas unit will be fully integrated into the integrated base and is scheduled to be put into production in 2025.

◾️Global Times | Published: 19^th Jan 2024 |New BASF plant inaugurated in S.China, ready to supply global market

German multinational chemical company BASF on 18^th January celebrated the inauguration of its Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) plant at its Zhanjiang Verbund site in South China's Guangdong Province, marking a milestone in the site's initial construction phase, according to a statement sent to the Global Times from BASF on Thursday. The new plant is the largest single TPU production line for BASF globally. It will help to meet market demand in industrial, eMobility and new energy segments, the company said.

◾️China Chemical Market Insights | 24^th Jan 2024 |BASF's Zhanjiang Verbund Site: A Milestone in Asia-Pacific’s Chemical Industry

Progress in Construction and Technology:
▪️Construction of a polyethylene plant began on June 19, 2023, with a 500,000-ton annual capacity, set to start production in 2025.
▪️In early 2023, BASF initiated the construction of plants for NPG, citral, glacial acrylic acid (GAA), butyl acrylate (BA), and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (2-EHA).
▪️Significant groundwork was laid for the EO/EG plant and other facilities in partnership with SINOCHEM in September 2022.

◾️BASF News Releases | 21^st Mar 2024 | BASF breaks ground on methyl glycols plant at Zhanjiang Verbund site in China

Hong Kong SAR, China – March 21, 2024 – BASF has broken ground on a methyl glycols (MG) plant at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. The new facility is designed with an annual capacity of 46,000 metric tons and aims to meet the rapidly growing demand for brake fluids in the region. The plant is scheduled to commence operations by the end of 2025.

Utilizing BASF's unique process technology, the new facility will be the only fully backward integrated methyl glycols plant into a steam cracker in China, serving the fast-growing brake fluids market.

◾️Zhanjiang Ecological Environment Bureau |19^th Apr 2024 | Environmental impact assessment document of the first phase of the engineering plastics product optimization project

The first phase of the BASF (Guangdong) integrated project engineering plastics product optimization project is located in the first phase of the BASF (Guangdong) integrated project in the Donghai Island Petrochemical Industrial Park in Zhanjiang City. It is a technical transformation project, mainly to adjust the production plan of production lines 1, 2, and 4 in the engineering plastics workshop, increase the production capacity of red phosphorus masterbatch flame retardant products by 11,000 tons/year (8,000 tons/year in the near future, and 3,000 tons/year in the long term), and reduce the production capacity of general PA/PBT/PBAT products by 11,000 tons/year, and the total production capacity of 160,000 tons/year remains unchanged. The technical transformation does not involve the TPU workshop of the first phase of the project, only the product plan of the engineering plastics workshop is adjusted, and its production process has not changed. The types and total usage of the main raw and auxiliary materials remain unchanged, and there are no new water, gas, and heat nodes and wastewater and waste gas nodes. No technical transformation will be carried out on the auxiliary and public works of the existing approved projects.

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Technology to produce methanol from syngas has been added.


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Carbon Monoxide Process via Crude Oil Partial Oxidation as described on the Lotte Ineos website has been created. The Process makes #syngas  that is separated in #carbonmonoxide  and #hydrogen . Since the owner of the Process and Process details cannot be identified, it is assigned a generic status.

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