From late Feb. to March, amino acid projects of four enterprises made progress.
CJ (Shenyang) Biotech Co., Ltd. (CJ Shenyang) On
13 March, the local environmental authority said the environmental
impact (EI) report of CJ Shenyang's "arginine expansion construction
project" would be approved; also, the EI report was published.
Budgeted
at USD84,437 (RMB600,000), the project is located in Shenbei New Area,
Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Since the production line equipment is
not operating at full capacity during arginine production on the
existing lysine line, the company has initiated this project. Upon
completion, CJ Shenyang's production capacity for arginine will be
expanded from 15,000 t/a to 60,000 t/a.
The
arginine production of this project will use glucose, potassium
hydroxide, ammonium sulphate and water as the major raw materials. The
steps in arginine production process will include raw materials
proportioning, bacterial strain culture, main fermentation culture,
fermented broth reception, centrifugal separation, resin separation (for
preparing ammonia water), concentration, decolourisation, filter press,
crystallisation, drying and packaging.
Sinochem Bluestar Adisseo Animal Nutrition Technology (Quanzhou) Co., Ltd. (Quanzhou Adisseo) On
6 March, the EI report of Quanzhou Adisseo's "150,000 t/a solid
methionine project" was approved by local environmental authority.
USD694.11
million (RMB4.93 billion) are to be invested in this project, which is
situated in Quanhui Petrochemical Industrial Park, Quanzhou City, Fujian
Province. After construction is completed, the project will deliver
150,000 t/a of capacity for solid methionine, applying hydantoin method
in production.
To
date, land acquisition for this project has been completed. Project
construction is expected to start in April 2024 and be completed in Feb.
2027. The "150,000 t/a solid methionine project" will only start
operating after Sinochem Environment Holdings Co., Ltd.'s "340,000 t/a
sulphuric acid (Phase I) project" comes on stream, as this solid
methionine project depends on the latter for its operation.
Dongxiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Dongxiao Biotech) On
21 Feb., the EI report (draft for soliciting public opinions) of
Dongxiao Biotech's "reconstruction project for high-quality amino acids"
was published.
Project overview
Type of project: reconstruction and expansion
Investment amount: USD14.78 million (RMB105.00 million)
Construction site location: Zhudi Industrial Zone, Zhudi District, Xinxing Town, Zhucheng City, Shandong Province
Construction
details: The original fermentation workshop and extraction workshop in
the "30,000 t/a high-end erythritol project" will be reconstructed into
fermentation workshop and drying workshop for this "high-end amino acids
project". 200 (sets of) existing devices, such as fermenter and
evaporator, will be utilised in the project production. 207 (sets of)
new devices will be introduced, including granulation bed, sieve for
final products, fully automatic packaging machine, etc.
Production
process and planned capacities: The bacterial strain used in
fermentation will be changed. The project production will apply the
aerobic fermentation technology and use glucose as a raw material to
produce L-Lysine sulphate. Upon completion, the project will enable
Dongxiao Biotech to have the capacities of 120,000 t/a for L-Lysine
sulphate and 30,000 t/a for high-end erythritol, but the company will
switch between these two products in production (rather than two
products being produced simultaneously).
Ningxia Unisplendour Tianhua Methionine Co., Ltd. (Ningxia Unisplendour) On
6 March, the environmental impact assessment information of Ningxia
Unisplendour's "project on tackling key R&D challenges in new
methionine production process during pilot-scale experiment, and
industrialisation demonstration" was published for the first time.
Ningxia
Unisplendour will spend USD17.48 million (RMB124.22 million) in this
new construction project, which is located in Zhongwei Industrial Park,
Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Construction items include
production unit devices, warehousing and shipping facilities,
utilities, supporting production units and supporting facilities for the
whole factory. The project will deliver 10,000 t/a of production
capacity for methionine after it is completed and put into operation.