UOP launches new facility

DES PLAINES - UOP, a Honeywell company, announced that Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., has successfully started up a new para-xylene complex using UOP process technology at the Sinopec facility in Shanghai. The aromatics project was completed in 30 months. The new aromatics complex produces 600,000 metric tons per annum of para-xylene using the UOP Parex process.