Market Analysis Of Acetate in China

The scale of the original enterprises producing butyl acetate in China is small, and the domestic production is insufficient. In 2009, China's butyl acetate production capacity was 585,000 t/a. The Sino-British joint venture Yangzijiang Acetyl Chemical Company (Chongqing) uses BP Company's switching esterification process to produce ethyl acetate and butyl acetate. The 80,000 t//a acetate plant, the largest in China, has been built. Thus, the demand for butyl acetate and ethyl acetate in China was alleviated. Jiangyin Changhua Chemical Company invested in the continuous automatic production of butyl acetate production line with an annual capacity of 100,000 t/a. The index of product quality ranks first in domestic peers. All technical and economic indicators have reached the international advanced level. 30,000 t/a ethyl acetate, 20,000 t/a isobutyl acetate and 10,000 t/a methyl chloroacetate have also been put into production. Celanese expands the capacity of its tobacco acetate filter fiber bundle joint ventures in Kunming, Nantong and Zhuhai, doubling the capacity in these three locations.