Recently, the Environmental Protection Bureau of Xuwei New Area announced the approval status of the environmental impact assessment documents for the high-end new material project of Lianyungang Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

The project will add a 120000 ton/year butadiene extraction unit to the main plant area of Lianyungang Petrochemical, and at the same time, build one 100000 ton/year alpha olefin unit, one 900000 ton/year polyethylene unit, one 50000 ton/year 1-butene unit, and one 100000 ton/year polyolefin elastomer unit in the Lianyungang Petrochemical Green Chemical New Materials Industrial Park plant area. Supporting storage, public auxiliary facilities, and pipelines will also be constructed simultaneously. The project will be implemented in two phases. The first phase will focus on the construction of polyethylene and 1-butene units, while the remaining units will be included in the second phase for promotion.

Two core projects have been implemented

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Satellite Chemical Co., Ltd., Lianyungang Petrochemical plans to increase capital and expand production with a total investment of 8.85 billion yuan, focusing on promoting the construction of two core projects. The plan is to complete an investment of 2.5 billion yuan by 2026. Among them, the 260000 tons/year aromatics joint treatment project with a total investment of 1.03 billion yuan is expected to be officially put into operation on October 30, 2026; The high-end new material project with a total investment of 7.82 billion yuan is planned to be completed and put into operation in August 2027.

Aromatic hydrocarbon project accelerates sprint

At present, the 260000 tons/year aromatics joint treatment project of Lianyungang Petrochemical located in Xuwei New District is in the critical sprint stage of equipment installation. Entering the project construction site, towers stand densely, pipelines crisscross, and construction workers dressed in red uniforms shuttle between steel frames and pipelines, fully committed to advancing equipment installation and pipeline laying work.

If the aromatics co processing project is a key layout for Lianyungang Petrochemical to tap into its potential and activate existing resources internally, then the high-end new materials project is its core measure to seek breakthroughs and seize the high-end market externally. The core production process of this project adopts the independently developed ethylene oligomerization technology to produce 1-butene, successfully breaking the long-term technological monopoly of foreign countries and achieving a breakthrough in the localization of key "bottleneck" technologies. After the completion of the project, it will extend the layout of high-end new material products such as polyolefins and polyethylene elastomers downstream, helping enterprises further expand the high-end chemical market and improve the layout of the entire industry chain.

Local assistance for enterprise development

Enterprises dare to invest huge amounts of money to increase capital and expand production, without the solid support of local industrial platforms. Zhang Yuanling admitted that since its establishment in Lianyungang in 2017, Lianyungang Petrochemical has always been very optimistic about the development environment here. As one of the seven major petrochemical industry bases in China, Xuwei New Area has top-notch supporting facilities, coupled with the continuously optimized business environment in Lianyungang, which has strengthened the confidence of enterprises to continue investing. Keywords: Petrochemical, Lianyungang, High end New Materials

In addition to these two core projects, Lianyungang Petrochemical will also implement capacity expansion, quality improvement, energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation around existing facilities in 2026, and promote 8 capital increase and production expansion projects such as epoxy plant load increase and new material capacity expansion transformation. The total investment of this batch of projects is about 2 billion yuan. After reaching full capacity, it is expected to add 1.178 million tons of product production capacity and an annual output value of 7 billion yuan.Editor/Gong Ziwei