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Petrochemicals

Matthey, Eastman sign first license for coal-to-ethylene glycol processes

by Jean-François Tremblay
September 28, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 39

 

Johnson Matthey and Eastman Chemical have signed up China’s Jiutai New Material as the first licensee of their jointly developed coal-to-ethylene glycol process. Jiutai will use Matthey technology to turn coal-derived syngas into methanol and then formaldehyde. The partners’new technology turns formaldehyde into ethylene glycol, avoiding the usual feedstock ethylene. Jiutai’s plant will have glycol capacity of 1 million metric tons per year. With a capacity of 1.5 million metric tons, the formaldehyde plant will be one of the world’s largest.

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