Recently, Wanhua Chemical announced that according to the annual maintenance plan, the TDI unit (250,000 tons/year) of its subsidiary Hungarian Boside Chemical Company will be installed in July. Production will be stopped for maintenance on July 15, and the maintenance is expected to take about 30 days. The MDI unit (350,000 tons/year) will be stopped for maintenance and technical transformation and capacity expansion will be carried out on July 18, and maintenance is expected to take about 80 days.
In addition, Longhua Pingshuo Chemical and Jinshi Chemical also announced that they will start the 2023 annual overhaul, involving hundreds of projects, each The equipment is stopped one after another to ensure the safe operation of the production system.
Collective production reduction in bisphenol A, resin, cyclic chlorine, titanium dioxide and other fields
It is understood that the market operating rates of more than a dozen chemical industry segments such as PTA, bisphenol A, cyclic chlorine, epoxy resin, and titanium dioxide have declined, and many people have stopped for maintenance.
PTA:
Currently in China The PTA operating rate remained at 78.8%. A 1.5 million ton PTA unit of Jiaxing Petrochemical was shut down for maintenance. A 3.6 million ton PTA unit of Yisheng New Materials was reduced to 50% operation. The load of Yisheng Hainan’s 2 million ton PTA unit was reduced to 50%. A 1.2-million-ton PTA unit in Sanfangxiang has been shut down for maintenance. A 1.2-million-ton PTA unit in Xinjiang Zhongtai has been shut down for maintenance and is scheduled to restart around late July.
Epichlorohydrin:
The overall operating rate of the industry dropped and remained at around 50%. Jiangsu Haixing has stopped production for maintenance, Zhejiang Zhenyang, Fujian Haobang and other devices are in shutdown status, and Wudi Xinyue’s 60,000-ton ECH technical transformation PO.
Epoxy resin:
The overall operating rate of liquid resin remains at around 70%, and the overall operating rate of solid resin is above 50%. In terms of liquid resin, Nantong Xingchen has a load of 80%, Shandong Deyuan and Zhejiang Haobang have a load of 60%. In terms of solid resin, Huangshan Hengtai has a load capacity of 80%, and Huangshan Yuanrun and Taihua International have a load capacity of 60%.
Methanol:
Shaanxi Shenmu The chemical industry’s 600,000 tons/year methanol unit is scheduled to be shut down for maintenance at the end of July, which is expected to take about 15 days; Shenhua Yulin’s 1.8 million tons/year methanol unit and the 600,000 tons/year MTO unit are planned to be shut down for maintenance in early August, which is expected to be around a month.
Ethylene glycol:
The comprehensive operating rate of ethylene glycol is 59.13%. Shenhua Yulin Chemical’s 400,000 tons/year syngas-to-ethylene glycol unit plans to start shutting down for maintenance on August 10, which is expected to last about 30 days; a 500,000 tons/year unit in South China The MEG unit plans to shut down for maintenance in the near future, and the maintenance time is expected to be around half a month; a 1.8 million tons/year syngas to ethylene glycol unit in Shaanxi has recently shut down for maintenance as planned, and the maintenance time is expected to be around 10-15 days; Guangdong A 400,000-ton/year MEG device has been shut down recently for some reason, and the shutdown time is expected to be about 2 weeks.
PVC:
PVC overall The operating rate is 73.82%, the operating rate of calcium carbide method is 72.12%, and the operating rate of ethylene method is 78.95%. Currently, there are 8 units with maintenance plans in July, involving a production capacity of 2.85 million tons. There are 6 units expected to undergo maintenance in August, mostly in the northwest region with a production capacity of 2.95 million tons.
Pure benzene: The disproportionation unit of a factory in East China will be shut down for replacement of catalytic converter, which is expected to last about 16 days.
Titanium dioxide: Some titanium dioxide companies have closed orders and stopped selling, and some manufacturers of anatase products are operating at low loads and implementing maintenance plans.
Bisphenol A: The overall operating rate is more than 70%, and Guangxi Huayi New Materials’ 200,000 tons/year bisphenol A device is shut down Overhaul.
“The “power rationing” test is intensified, typhoons hinder the start of construction, and the operating rate of the chemical market continues to decline
In addition to subjective and spontaneous production reductions, recent changes in the external environment have also faced major challenges in the chemical market. The order situation has not improved in the second half of the year, but the flood season and high temperatures and The impact of the typhoon has spread.
Since the beginning of summer, many places around the world have experienced extreme high temperature weather. Some areas in China have continued to set high temperature records. Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Sichuan, Chongqing and many other places have successively required orderly power consumption, and industrial enterprises have started operations at staggered peak times. Some areas in Shaoxing have begun to implement orderly power consumption management measures, and some enterprises require a 20% load limit during certain periods of time.
The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions affected by high temperatures have always been my country’s main chemical production bases. Currently, the chemical companies affected mainly focus on PTA, The impact of the ethylene glycol and polyester industry chains on the polyester industry chain may first be reflected in the terminal environment.��. The high temperature has also affected the operating rate of the coal chemical industry chain. The current operating rate of urea has dropped to 770.7%, and the operating rate of methanol has dropped to 74.7%.
At the same time, this year’s No. 4 typhoon “Tali” will make landfall along the coast from Taishan, Guangdong, to Wenchang, Hainan. The storm level strengthened to typhoon level. Under the influence of the typhoon, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places adopted measures such as suspension of classes, suspension of work, suspension of operations, suspension of flights, suspension of parks, suspension of business, etc., which also hindered the start of operations of chemical companies in East China, South China and the Changsha region. Affected companies Reaching tens of thousands.
