Date: 25 March 2020 , 18:19
News ID: 8858

Zhejiang Zhengkai starts up Chongqing PET plant

Chinese producer Zhejiang Zhengkai's subsidiary Chongqing Wankai is starting up today its new 600,000 t/yr polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle chip plant.
Zhejiang Zhengkai starts up Chongqing PET plant

Feedstock purified terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol was fed into the Chongqing plant in southwest China today, with Wankai targeting on-specification production by the end of this month.

The project has a design capacity of 1.2mn t/yr of PET bottle chip, including two 600,000 t/yr production lines. Total investment is 3.6bn yuan ($507mn).

The phase one 600,000 t/yr PET bottle chip plant started construction in January 2019 and finished this year. But the coronavirus outbreak in China delayed its start-up plan from mid-February to this month because of a lack of workers.

Zhejiang Zhengkai will be the second-largest PET bottle chip producer in China following the Chongqing start-up behind Jiangsu Sanfangxiang. Zhejiang Zhengkai currently operates three PET bottle chip units with a total capacity of 1.25mn t/yr in east China's Zhejiang province.

source: Argus Media