Zhongtai's 250kt/year polyester filament yarn project starts construction

Xinjiang Zhongtai Polyester Fiber Materials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongtai Polyester Company") recently completed all approval procedures for its 250kt/year direct-spun polyester filament project, officially entering the substantive construction phase.

Zhongtai Polyester Company is a first-level subsidiary of Xinjiang Zhongtai (Group) Co., Ltd. With a total investment of 1.714 billion yuan, the project is equipped with internationally advanced polyester filament production lines. Upon completion, it will significantly enhance the enterprise's capacity scale and market competitiveness in the polyester filament field, fill the gap in polyester filament material capacity in the Bazhou area of Xinjiang, and form a new industrial pattern of coordinated development with the locally built polyester staple fiber capacity.

In April last year, the 250kt/year polyester staple fiber project of Xinjiang Korla Zhongtai Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhongtai Group, was put into production, marking the completion of the largest polyester staple fiber production base in northwest China and filling the market gap of polyester staple fiber in the northwest region. This project not only extended the industrial chain of the PTA project but also undertook downstream cotton spinning or blended spinning enterprises, improving Xinjiang's complete "refining-chemical-spinning" industrial chain.

In recent years, Zhongtai Group has actively cooperated with local private enterprises in Xinjiang such as Korla Zhongtai Textile (formerly Xinjiang Fulida), Lihua Group, Markor Chemical, and Xinjiang Zhongkun Chemical, as well as central enterprises including PetroChina Urumqi Petrochemical Company. It has extended the development of petrochemical, fine chemical, textile and garment industries, and successively completed projects such as 1.2 million tons/year PTA and 250kt/year polyester staple fiber, filling the gap of polyester fiber raw materials in Xinjiang.

At present, Zhongtai Group has collaborated with enterprises in the region to open up three complete industrial chains: "coal-electricity-limestone-calcium carbide-PVC-engineering and medical plastics", "coal-electricity-salt-alkali-viscose-yarn-weaving-garment", and "cotton planting-spinning-weaving-dyeing-finishing-garment". It has also jointly built industrial chains such as "crude oil-PX-PTA-polyester-blended spinning" and "natural gas/calcium carbide-acetylene-BDO-PTMEG-PU, PBT/PBAT engineering plastics and degradable materials" with enterprises in Xinjiang. This has created a new pattern of coupling, circular complementarity and coordinated development among chlor-alkali, thermal power, upstream raw materials, downstream viscose fiber and textile industry clusters, which is of great practical significance for promoting the vigorous development of Xinjiang's textile and garment industry and driving employment for one million people.