China based Hengli Petrochemicals is planning to test one of its two new units for Para Xylene in the month of November. The new unit is based at Dalian in Liaoning province of China and ha the production capacity of 20 mln mt/year. Both lines have a production capacity of 2.25 million mt/year. The second line is expected to start in the first or second quarter of 2019.
Hengli is one of China's, and the world's, largest producers of purifiedterephthalic acid, with three plants at Dalian totaling 6.6 million mt/yearin production capacity. PX is used to produce PTA.
