Axens to Build Aromatics Complex in China

Axens (Paris) says it has been selected to build an aromatics complex for Dragon Aromatics (Xiamen, China) at Xiamen. The complex will use Axens’s ParamaX range of technologies, which produce aromatics from naphtha. It will be built in two phases. The first, for completion in 2009, will have capacity to produce 800,000 m.t./year of para-xylene; 160,000 m.t./year of ortho-xylene; and 228,000 m.t./year of benzene. A meta-xylene plant will be added in the second phase. Dragon Aromatics forms part of Dragon Special Resin (Xiamen), a producer of polyethylene...

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