CEPSA CHEMICAL SHANGHAITHE COMPANY OPENS A PLANT IN THE BIGGEST PHENOL AND ACETONE PRODUCTION HUB IN THE WORLD

FIGURES BEHINDCHOICE OF LOCATION:

CHINA, THE KEY MARKETFOR PHENOL

Biggest economy in the world

GDP growing at a yearly rate of 7.5%

Population of 1.36 billion

Middle class: 250 million in 10 years

World leaderin the purchase of vehicles and mobile phones

CEPSA, WORLD LEADER

MOST COMMON USES FOR PHENOL AND ACETONE

1,200,000METRIC TONS

1,400,000METRIC TONS

CUMENE PHENOL AND ACETONE

WORLDPRODUCER

1stWORLD

PRODUCER

2nd

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

COMPOSITE MATERIALS,SCRATCH-RESISTANT AND EASY-TO-CLEAN,FURNITURE AND MOULDING RESINS FORCONSTRUCTION

MOBILE TELEPHONES AND IT

MANUFACTURE OF PLASTICS FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS, SUCH AS MOBILE PHONES ANDCOMPUTERS LAPTOPS, LED LIGHTS, POLYCARBONATES AND OTHERS ENGINEERING PLASTICS

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

PRODUCTION OF ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID AND COMPLEX VITAMINS

WORLD PHENOL DEMAND

The size of the circles represents MILLIONS OF METRIC TONS

2.32.8

5.5

AMERICAS

EMEA

ASIA

PLANT DIMENSIONSPETROLEUM

CUMENE

ACETONEPHENOL

BENZENEPROPYLENE

SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS OF ACETONE

UNIVERSAL SOLVENT,ACRYLIC POLYMERS FOR PAINTS ANDCOATINGS

VEHICLE AND AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE

MANUFACTURE OFLIGHT AND RESISTANTPLASTICS AND RUBBERS, THATIMPROVE EFFICIENCYIN THE CONSUMPTION

LOCATIONS

'DOWNSTREAM' INTEGRATION

PRODUCTION SEQUENCE

SHANGHAI ACCOUNTS FOR 25%OF INTERNAL DEMAND FOR THESETYPES OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS

CONTROL ROOM

OXIDATION

FRACTIONATION, PRUAND HYDROGENTION

WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

PROPYLENESPHERE

FLARE RAWMATERIAL TANKS

PRODUCT TANKSTRUCKLOADING STATION

OFFICES; LABORATORIESAND WORKSHOPS COOLING TOWER

ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION

CONCENTRATION

Shanghai

SCIP

Jiangsu

SHANGHAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY PARK

DECOMPOSITIONAND ION EXCHANGE

Characteristics

Equipment: 282 electric motors Total installed power: 16 MW The Distributed Control Centre

acts automatically on 465 control loops

The Distributed Control Centre receives 5,736 continuous pressure, temperature and analyser readings

Improved production process using CEPSA Technology (phenol

202 sample points for the laboratory

Analysis of up to 1,600 production

Production

250,000 METRIC TONS of phenol 150,000 METRIC TONS of acetone 360,000 METRIC TONS of cumene