10 Events in Chemical Equipment Manufacturing Industry in 2006

● The State Council issued the 6th and 8th documents
On February 7, the 6th Document of the State Council - "Notice of the State Council on Printing and Distributing the Implementation of the National Medium- and Long-Term Scientific and Technological Development Plan Outline (2006-2020)" Circular issued; February 13, State Council Document No. 8 - "Several Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Revitalization of the Equipment Manufacturing Industry" issued. The two documents are the programmatic documents for the accelerated development of China's equipment manufacturing industry in the coming years.

● Domestic full-welded forged steel ball valve used West-East Gas Transmission

On April 8, the first batch of 19 large-caliber all-welded forged steel pipe ball valves developed by Sichuan Zigong High-Pressure Valve Co., Ltd. were delivered to the construction site of the West-East Gas Pipeline Huai (Yang)-Wu (Han) Pipeline Project. This is the first time that the West-East Gas Pipeline Project adopts domestically produced products of this type, which shows that the manufacturing technology of China's large-caliber fully-welded forged steel pipe ball valve has reached the international level and is another example of the nationalization of major equipment in China's large-scale projects.

●The first set of Shell oil coal conversion equipment went into production
Shell's first set of coal gasification equipment for ammonia production was successfully launched in Hubei Shuanghuan Technology Co., Ltd. on May 17. The device is the core device of double-ring oil to coal, and its core equipment is Shell pulverized coal gasifier. It is the first project of Shell coal gasification technology settled in China, and has a positive reference for the selection of raw materials for China's synthetic ammonia production process.

● Two "10th Five-Year" national major technical equipment development projects passed the acceptance
On May 24th, the “Key Equipment for Radial Tire Equipment and Engineering Radial Tires” passed the national acceptance in Tianjin. The successful implementation of this project enabled China to supply complete sets of equipment to the radial tire production enterprise and to the engineering Meridian. Fetal production enterprises supply key equipment capabilities; On September 6, the "Large Fertilizer Complete Equipment Development Project" passed the national acceptance in Dezhou, Shandong Province. The project developed a large-scale chemical fertilizer core technology and complete sets of equipment with independent intellectual property rights. The first set of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia plant with coal as raw material will be autonomized.

● The largest domestic air compressor unit was born in Shenyang

In early June, Shenyang Blower Group was a compressor group H596 developed for the 52,000 air separation unit of Henan Zhongyuan Dahua Co., Ltd. and successfully obtained the test of medium and low-pressure cylinders. The unit is currently the country's largest air-pressure equipment, marking the development of a large drum compressor unit has reached a new height.

●Shenhua liquefaction 2000 tons hydrogenation reactor was successfully installed
The world's first single-heavy coal liquefaction reactor, designed and manufactured by China Yizhong Group, was successfully lifted on June 17 after passing the final hydrostatic test in 2006. The reactor is the core unit of the first production line in the first phase of the coal direct liquefaction project of the Shenhua Group, with a total mass of 2,250 tons. It is the first time in the country and in the world to complete the installation of such a super-quality reactor.

● Xi'an Conference and Major Equipment Autonomization Experience Exchange Meeting Held

On June 19, the State Council held a meeting to rejuvenate the equipment manufacturing industry in Xi'an. Zeng Peiyan, vice premier of the State Council, pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen organizational leadership, improve the institutional mechanisms, improve policies and regulations, and achieve breakthroughs in major technological equipment in key areas as soon as possible. On August 28th, the National Development and Reform Commission held a national experience exchange conference on major technologies and equipment in the northeast. Zhang Guobao, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission and director of the State Council’s Zhenxing Northeast Office, revolved around the achievements and experience of China’s major technological equipment autonomy in recent years, the current outstanding issues, a series of support policies and measures introduced by the state, and the next focus of work. Systematic summary and elaboration.

● radial tire vulcanizer won the Chinese brand name
In September, the Licensing of Guilin Rubber Machinery Factory and the dual-wheel radial tire vulcanizing machine of Fujian Huaxun Automatic Control Technology Co., Ltd. both won the title of “China Top Brand Products” and achieved a breakthrough in the Chinese famous brand of rubber machinery industry. The earth has promoted the brand strategy of China's rubber machinery industry.

● A batch of domestically-made major petrochemical equipment for Maoming million-ton ethylene project
The 1.8 million-ton-per-year Maoming ethylene expansion project with an investment of 8.1 billion yuan was formally put into operation on November 18. It was the first million-ton ethylene project completed and put into operation during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period. The project achieved the localization of a series of major petrochemical equipment such as 640,000 tpa ethylene cracker compressors, 300,000 tpa polypropylene loop reactors, and 135,000 tpa ethylene cracking furnaces, including newly-built cracking equipment. The rate reached 87.8%.

● 1 million tons of PTA expansion plant in Yangzi is put into production
On November 18th, the 450,000-ton/year PTA production plant that Yangzi Petrochemical expanded over more than two years was fully completed and put into operation, making Yangzi Petrochemical the first company with a PTA production capacity of more than 1 million tons in China Petrochemical, and 1 million tons for the subsequent construction of Yizheng. The PTA project has provided experience with localization of major equipment. On the same day, Sinopec's 1 million tons/year PTA complete set of technology packages passed the identification.