For the polyester industry chain support

China Coatings Network
News: The development of the domestic petrochemical industry is extremely unbalanced, some products have appeared surplus or surplus trend, some products are still serious shortage, polyester industry chain of xylene (PX) and glycol are such two representatives. Imports of these two products have remained high year after year, which poses a great challenge to the safety of China's polyester industry.
PX imports reached 9.97 million tons and ethylene glycol 8.45 million tons in 2014. In the first five months of 2015, PX imported 4.88 million tons, an increase of more than 20% year-on-year; The cumulative import volume of glycol was 3.59 million tons, a slight decrease of 1.9% YoY. PX imports are expected to exceed 10 million tons for the full year 2015, with glycol imports expected to be flat or slightly lower than last year. The main reason for this phenomenon is that over the years, China's PTA and polyester production capacity expansion is rapid, while domestic PX and glycol production capacity expansion is far from keeping up, can only rely heavily on imports.
PX expansion can not keep up with the pace of downstream PTA expansion, mainly in the face of continuous opposition to the new PX project group events, the original PX project or relocation, or suspension, or even cancellation, whether to obtain the support of the local people is the PX industry development is a huge challenge. The explosion of the PX project, which had been operating normally in Gulei, Fujian Province, in early April this year was even worse for the "PX phobia" that had already occurred. The author believes that for the development of PX, the first thing to do is to go phobia. We should attach importance to news propaganda and public opinion guidance, strengthen the popular science of petrochemical knowledge, and improve the public's awareness level. Now all over the country are preparing the "13th Five-Year Plan", including the petrochemical industry planning layout plan, the state also refining integration and PX and other projects of the approval authority to the provincial government or local governments. Not only to develop, but also to people's livelihood, local governments need to weigh the pros and cons, in order to win-win situation.
glycol is mainly used in China by coal chemical (herbate) method. The production capacity of the coal glycol plant, which has been put into operation or is about to be put into operation, has reached 5 million tons or higher, but the operating rate of the plant is generally not high (less than 50%), and the operation of the plant is unstable and the quality is lower than expected, and it is not possible to compete with the products produced by ethylene method. At the same time, now all over the country pay attention to safety and environmental protection issues, the development of coal chemical industry has encountered unprecedented challenges. In addition, with the decline of international crude oil prices, the cost advantage of coal glycol is also gone.
The author believes that for the development of glycol, to walk on two legs, coal glycol technology to attack, to ensure that the unit has been put into operation normal and effective smooth operation, but also to moderately develop the ethylene production route, in the future new refining integration project to consider more supporting some glycol devices. Crude oil prices affect the overall situation, the future high and low are possible, with the rise of shale gas and other emerging energy sources, in the short and medium term oil prices upward over 100 dollars / barrel is unlikely, glycol production will continue to be dominated by ethylene.
, the import of polyester raw materials PX and glycol remains high, providing great imagination space for the development of these two products. Strive to make these two products self-severity rate of 70% to 80%, improve the market's voice, in order to provide security for the benign development of the entire polyester industry chain.