Uhde Licenses Aromatics Technology in China      

Uhde has licensed to Xingtai Risun Chemical Co., Ltd. for building an aromatics plant at Tangshan of Hebei province, according to Uhde on December 17th, 2008.
   The new plant will produce top-quality benzene, toluene and xylene and other valuable aromatic fractions from coke oven light oil, mainly for the Chinese market. High-purity aromatics are processed into essential intermediate products used, for example, in the production of plastics.
   The plant is designed for a capacity of 200 000 t/a coke oven light oil, with scheduled startup in 2010.
   Xingtai Risun Coal & Chemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Risun Group, is currently building a high-purity aromatics plant at Xingtai in Hebei province using Uhde's process, which is scheduled for startup around mid-2009.
   The two plants will bring a capacity of 260 000 t/a aromatics for Risun Group.
   In addition, the company said a high-purity aromatics plant at a coke plant site in Qujing of Yunnan province and a coke pant in Wuhan of Hubei province to be built will be based on Uhde's process.