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Chinese Firm To Make Ethylene Glycol

by Jean-François Tremblay
February 28, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 9

Japanese firms Ube Industries and HighChem have licensed their process to make ethylene glycol from synthesis gas to the Chinese company Qianxixian Qianxi Coal Chemical. Using the technology, Qianxi­xian intends to build a 300,000-metric-ton-per-year ethylene glycol plant to start up in early 2013 in Guizhou, a poor southern China province endowed with large coal reserves. The Japanese firms’ process uses a palladium catalyst to produce dimethyl oxalate from coal-derived syngas. The DMO is then reduced to ethylene glycol. HighChem has already demonstrated the technology at a pilot plant in China.

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