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Maoming Petrochemical Company fire, PP/PE unit shutdown!
At about 12:45 on June 8, a spherical tank pump of Maoming Petrochemical and chemical division leaked, causing the intermediate tank of aromatics unit of ethylene cracking unit to catch fire. The leaders of Maoming municipal government, emergency, fire protection and high tech Zone departments and Maoming Petrochemical Company have arrived at the scene for disposal. At present, the fire has been under control. It is understood that the fault involves 2# cracking unit. At present, 250000 T / a 2# LDPE unit has been shut down, and the start-up time is to be determined. Polyethylene grades: 2426h, 2426k, 2520d, etc. Temporary shutdown of 2# polypropylene unit of 300000 tons / year and 3# polypropylene unit of 200000 tons / year. Polypropylene related brands: ht9025nx, f4908, K8003, k7227, ... -
EU: mandatory use of recycled materials, recycled PP soaring!
According to icis It is observed that market participants often lack sufficient collection and sorting capacity to meet their ambitious sustainable development goals, which is particularly prominent in the packaging industry, which is also the biggest bottleneck faced by polymer recycling. At present, the sources of raw materials and waste packages of three major recycled polymers, recycled PET (RPET), recycled polyethylene (R-PE) and recycled polypropylene (r-pp), are limited to a certain extent. In addition to energy and transportation costs, the shortage and high price of waste packages have driven the value of renewable polyolefins to a record high in Europe, resulting in an increasingly serious disconnect between the prices of new polyolefin materials and renewable polyolefins, whi... -
Polylactic acid has achieved remarkable results in desertification control!
In chaogewenduer Town, wulatehou banner, Bayannaoer City, Inner Mongolia, aiming at the problems of serious wind erosion of the exposed wound surface of the degraded grassland, barren soil and slow plant recovery, researchers have developed a rapid recovery technology of degraded vegetation induced by microbial organic mixture. This technology uses nitrogen fixing bacteria, cellulose decomposing microorganisms and straw fermentation to produce organic mixture, Spraying the mixture in the vegetation restoration area to induce the formation of soil crust can make the sand fixing plant species of the exposed wound of the degraded grassland settle down, so as to realize the rapid repair of the degraded ecosystem. This new technology is derived from the national key research and development ... -
Implemented in December! Canada issues the strongest “plastic ban” regulation!
Steven Guilbeault, the Federal Minister of environment and climate change, and Jean Yves Duclos, the Minister of health, jointly announced that the plastics targeted by the plastic ban include shopping bags, tableware, catering containers, ring portable packaging, mixing rods and most straws. From the end of 2022, Canada officially banned companies from importing or producing plastic bags and takeout boxes; From the end of 2023, these plastic products will no longer be sold in China; By the end of 2025, not only will it not be produced or imported, but all these plastic products in Canada will not be exported to other places! Canada’s goal is to achieve “Zero plastic entering landfills, beaches, rivers, wetlands and forests” by 2030, so that plastic can disappear from ... -
Synthetic resin: the demand for PE is declining and demand for PP is growing steadily
In 2021, the production capacity will increase by 20.9% to 28.36 million tons / year; The output increased by 16.3% year-on-year to 23.287 million tons; Due to the large number of new units put into operation, the unit operating rate decreased by 3.2% to 82.1%; The supply gap decreased by 23% year-on-year to 14.08 million tons. It is estimated that in 2022, China’s PE production capacity will increase by 4.05 million tons / year to 32.41 million tons / year, an increase of 14.3%. Limited by the impact of plastic order, the growth rate of domestic PE demand will decline. In the next few years, there will still be a large number of new proposed projects, facing the pressure of structural surplus. In 2021, the production capacity will increase by 11.6% to 32.16 million tons / year; T... -
China’s PP export volume fell sharply in the first quarter!
According to the data of the State Customs, the total export volume of polypropylene in China in the first quarter of 2022 was 268700 tons, a decrease of about 10.30% compared with the fourth quarter of last year, and a decrease of about 21.62% compared with the first quarter of last year, a sharp decline compared with the same period of last year. In the first quarter, the total export volume reached US $407million, and the average export price was about US $1514.41/t, a month on month decrease of US $49.03/t. The main export price range remained between us $1000-1600 / T. In the first quarter of last year, the extreme cold and epidemic situation in the United States led to the tightening of polypropylene supply in the United States and Europe. There was a demand gap overseas, resultin... -
A PVC reactor of the Middle East petrochemical giant exploded!
Petkim, a Turkish petrochemical giant, announced that on the evening of June 19, 2022, an explosion occurred at the Aliaga plant where is located in 50 kilometers north of lzmir. According to the company, the accident occurred in the PVC reactor of the factory, no one was injured, and the fire was quickly controlled, but the PVC device was temporarily offline due to the accident. According to local analysts, the event may have a great impact on the European PVC spot market. It is reported that because the PVC price in China is far lower than that of Turkey, and on the other hand, the PVC spot price in Europe is higher than that of Turkey, most of petkim’s PVC products are exported to the European market. -
The epidemic prevention policy was adjusted and PVC rebounded
On June 28, the epidemic prevention and control policy slowed down, the pessimism about the market last week significantly improved, the commodity market generally rebounded, and the spot prices in all parts of the country improved. With the price rebound, the basis price advantage gradually decreased, and most of the transactions are immediate deals. Some transactions environment were better than yesterday, but it was difficult to sell cargoes at high prices, and the overall transaction performance was flat. In terms of fundamentals, the improvement on the demand side is weak. At present, the peak season has passed and there is a large area of rainfall, and the demand fulfillment is less than expected. Especially under the understanding of the supply side, the inventory is still freque... -
Introduction about PVC Capacity in China and Globally
According to the statistics in 2020, the global total PVC production capacity reached 62 million tons and the total output reached 54 million tons. All the reduction in output means that the production capacity did not run 100%. Because of natural disasters, local policies and other factors, the output must be less than the production capacity. Due to the high production cost of PVC in Europe and Japan, the global PVC production capacity is mainly concentrated in Northeast Asia, of which China has about half of the global PVC production capacity. According to wind data, in 2020, China, the United States and Japan are important PVC production areas in the world, with production capacity accounting for 42%, 12% and 4% respectively. In 2020, the top three enterprises in the global PVC ann... -
The Future Trend of PVC Resin
PVC is a kind of plastic used widely in building materials. Therefore, it will not be replaced for a long time in the future, and it will have great application prospects in less developed areas in the future. As we all know, there are two ways to produce PVC, one is the international common ethylene method, and the other is the unique calcium carbide method in China. The sources of ethylene method are mainly petroleum, while the sources of calcium carbide method are mainly coal, limestone and salt. These resources are mainly concentrated in China. For a long time, China’s PVC of calcium carbide method has been in an absolute leading position. Especially from 2008 to 2014, China’s PVC production capacity of calcium carbide method has been increasing, but it has also brought ... -
What is PVC Resin?
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a polymer polymerized by vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) in peroxide, azo compound and other initiators or according to the free radical polymerization mechanism under the action of light and heat. Vinyl chloride homopolymer and vinyl chloride copolymer are collectively referred to as vinyl chloride resin. PVC was once the world’s largest general-purpose plastic, which was widely used. It is widely used in building materials, industrial products, daily necessities, floor leather, floor tiles, artificial leather, pipes, wires and cables, packaging film, bottles, foaming materials, sealing materials, fibers and so on. According to the different application scope, PVC can be divided into: general-purpose PVC resin, high degree of polymerization PVC resin and ... -
The export arbitrage window of PVC continues to open
In terms of supplying aspect, calcium carbide, last week, the mainstream market price of calcium carbide was reduced by 50-100 yuan / ton. The overall operating load of calcium carbide enterprises was relatively stable, and the supply of goods was sufficient. Affected by the epidemic, the transportation of calcium carbide is not smooth, the factory price of enterprises is lowered to allow profit transportation, the cost pressure of calcium carbide is large, and the short-term decline is expected to be limited. The start-up load of PVC upstream enterprises has increased. The maintenance of most enterprises is concentrated in the middle and late April, and the start-up load will remain relatively high in the short term. Affected by the epidemic, the operating loa...