Plant Expansions: Sichuan Shengda opens 1 mn tonne/year PTA plant in China;

Invista’s technology and licensing group, Invista Performance Technologies (IPT), Sichuan Shengda Chemical New Material Co., Ltd (Sichuan Shengda) and Sichuan Energy Investment Chemical New Material Co., Ltd (Sichuan Energy) announce the successful start-up of Sichuan Shengda’s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant. On-specification production was achieved on May 24, 2019.

This plant, located in Nanchong, Sichuan province, utilises Invista’s proprietary P7 PTA process technology, with a nameplate capacity of 1 million tonnes/year. This plant also uses Invista’s proprietary R2R technology for production of benzoic acid as co-product.

According to Invista, with this start-up, IPT has now successfully commissioned seven PTA projects totalling over 11 million tonnes/year capacity since 2015.