Guangxi Huayi Energy Chemical expects to start up a new 1.8-million-t/y coal-fed methanol plant at China’s Qinzhou port in May or June of this year.
The facility, is likely to be the largest methanol plant along China’s coastal regions and will source around 2.7-million t/y to 3-million t/y of coal to feed the plant, the report said.
Guangxi Huayi also expects to start up a 500,000-t/y downstream acrylic acid (AA) unit around the same time as the methanol plant, and a 700,000-t/y AA unit at the end of 2021. The AA plants will use the methanol as feedstock.
