Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Co., Ltd.(Jiangsu Sailboat) adopted its UPO MTO unit and successfully put into production. The new unit can extract methanol from coal and convert it to olefins for making plastics. The annual output of the unit can reach 833,000 tons, which is the world's largest single methanol olefins unit at present. 
  "The equipment being put into production of Jiangsu Sailboat is currently the largest single MTO unit in the world," said Liu Maoshu, general manager of Honeywell UOP in China." in terms of size and operational efficiency, Honeywell UOP's advanced methanol-olefin process is firmly in the leading position in the industry. "
(R-12)