On August 10th, an 80,000 t/a mononitrotoluene upgrading project of Jiangsu Huaihe Chemical Co., Ltd was successfully commissioned, making the company the world's largest maker of mononitrotoluene.
Jiangsu Huaihe Chemical Co., Ltd is a chemical intermediate producer which manufactures chemical intermediates with synthetic ammonia and nitric acid by nitration and hydrogenization processes. It is also a major fine chemical intermediate producer in China. Its ShuangheTM mononitrotoluene, which started production in 1978, was accredited as an Excellent Product by the Ministry of the Chemical Industry, and has been widely used in industries such as pesticides, medicine and dyestuffs and was highly competitive in the market. To expand production scale and meet customers' demands, the company began to upgrade its original production line to raise its capacity to 80,000 t/a from 50,000 t/a. The project began construction in October 2007 and was prepared for trial production in March 2009, placed into trial production in June and was successful commissioned on August 10th. (Ji Baoming)