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CHINESE TO BAN CHEMICALS AND PROCESSES FROM INVESMENT

Asia Pulse

BEIJING, China, 10 September 1999 -- BEIJING, Sep 10, 1999 (Asia Pulse via COMTEX) -- Related government departments are to promulgate in the near future a catalogue of chemicals for which investment will be banned, according to the weekly "China Chem 2000".

The catalogue has been submitted to the State Economic and Trade Commission for approval, according to sources with the State Bureau for Petroleum and Chemical Industry.

This will be the first batch in a string of such catalogues to be issued, the sources added.

Officials from Planning and Development Dept. of the Bureau explained that some of the projects Listed in the catalogue involve products in serious oversupply, and products made by old-fashioned production technologies.

The following are 24 projects for which investment will be banned:

Nitric acid (through atmospheric and comprehensive processes); Caustic soda (mercury process and graphite anode diaphragm); Calcium carbide (with an annual production capacity of at least 45,000 tons, non-close furnace); Carbon tetrachloride (production facility); Benzidine (production facility); Aniline (iron powder reduction process, such intermediates as a-phenylene diamine); Old varieties of farm chemicals (tolimat/omethoate, methamidophos, hexachloro-cyclohexane, DDT, monocrotophos, isocarbophos, parathion-methyl, parathion, isofenphos-methyl, phorate, dicofol/Kelthane, sulfotepp bromethane, lindance, chlordane, dibromo-chlorophopane, chlordimeform hydrochloride, tetramine, fluoroacetamide, sodium fluoroacetate, heptachlor, polychlorobiphenyl, nitrofen, high/medium-temperature-process paraquate); Carbon black (with an annual production capacity of less than 10,000 tons, dry granulating); Yellow phosphorus (with an annual production capacity of less than 1,000 tons); Hydrogen peroxide (electrolysis process); Sodium bichromate (with an annual production capacity of less than 7,000 tons); Sodium cyanide (ammonia-sodium process and cyanogen melt process); Potassium carbonate (ion-exchange process); Phenol (sulfonating process); Phthalic anhydride (naphthalene oxidation process); Acetic acid (alcohol method); PVC (calcium-carbide-process projects, excluding those approved by the State); Cycle tire (new construction projects, expansion projects); Sulfuric acid (with an annual production capacity of less than 40,000 tons); Soda ash (new production facilities); Dialcohol (with an annual production capacity of less than 50,000 tons); Barium carbonate (with an annual production capacity of less than 100 tons); Citric acid (with an annual production capacity of less than 10,000 tons).

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