Singapore — China's Jiutai Energy plans to startup its new 250,000 mt/year coal-based high density polyethylene/linear low density unit and 350,000 mt/year polypropylene unit in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, at the end of 2018, a source close to the company said Wednesday.
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Sign Up Market sources expect the full commissioning and startup to last into the early part of 2019, as typical of all polymer units, which require time to startup.
It already operates a 250,000 mt/year PE plant, a 1 million mt/year coal-based methanol unit and a 100,000 mt/year dimethyl ether facility at the same site.
