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PTMEG Industrial Chain Forum 2022

2022-10-08

PTMEG (poly-tetrahydrofuran/poly-tetra-methylene ether glycol) is the main downstream application of BDO, accounting for 53% of BDO consumption. China has already built around 850kt/a PTMEG capacity. In recent years, Chinese BDO industry experienced a continuing investing heat, benefitted from three industry sectors: biodegradable plastics (PBAT/PBS/PBSA etc), novel energy industry lithium ionic battery solvent (GBL/NMP etc, and PTMEG-spandex process chain.

 

PTMEG consuming areas including spandex, polyurethane elastomers (mainly polyether type TPU) and ester-ether copolymer elastomer (TPEE), with spandex as the biggest field accounting for 95% of the total use. Spandex is a fiber of excellent performance and, with increasing demand on comfort of textiles and clothing, spandex industry would usher in a new round of capacity expansion. In future, application of technical barrier breakthroughs in high-end fields would also become a new growth point of PTMEG.

 

Based on good prospect of the spandex industry development and extension of large-scale BDO industry chain, new PTMEG project development would become more passionate and present two major trends, i.e. BDO-PTMEG integration and PTMEG spandex industry cluster. In Wuhai City of Inner Mongolia, near to 3Mt/a of BDO capacity is planned to fully use the local abundant resources, attached with 1.44Mt/a PTMEG capacity; Ningdong Energy Chemical production base would build a 1Mt/a size Chinese spandex valley, taking the back-up of the 500kt/a PTMEG capacities either built or at planning stage on the site; in Changshou Economy Technology Developing Zone, Chongqing Municipality, several projects are planned and/or contract signed, including SINOPEC Sichuan Vinylon CNY7.45bn valued 300kt/a BDO integration project, and ZR Chem CNY2.9bn invested NMP new material integration project etc.

 

PTMEG Industrial Chain Forum, hosted by ASIACHEM, is to be held in Chongqing on Oct 26-27th 2022. The conference is to discuss the topics of spandex/thermoplastic elastomer policy developing trend and market opportunity, PTMEG value chain, new BDO-PTMEG integration project configuration, PTMEG supply balance & spandex industry chain, different raw material route BDO-PTMEG process & cost competition force, PU elastomer/ester-ether copolymer elastomer development & application prospect etc.The Forum will visit BDO and PTMEG/NMP related enterprises in Chongqing Changshou Economic and Technological Development Zone.


Content

1. "Fourteenth Five Year Plan" Thermoplastic Elastomer Policies and Market Trends

2. Analysis and prospect of China's spandex industry

3. China's BDO projects and industrial chain extension

4. New BDO-PTMEG project planning

5. BDO-PTMEG production technology and competitiveness analysis

6. PTMEG value chain

7. Spandex expansion and new project planning

8. Development and progress of new differentiated spandex products

9. Application and development of polyurethane elastomer (TPU, CPU, MPU)

10. Application and development of ester ether copolymer elastomer (TPEE)

11. Industrial visit and business investigation