Summary: Inner Mongolia Benxing has arranged and planned construction tasks of several pesticide intermediates and pesticides technical projects in the chemical park it settles. So far, the company's 10,000 t/a sodium 3,5,6-trichloropyridin-2-olate lines have been put into production; its lines of 5,000 t/a 2-chloro-5-chloromethylthiazole and 15,000 t/a chlorpyrifos technical (water phase process) have been put into trial production.

By early March, Inner Mongolia Benxing Chemical Co., Ltd. (Inner Mongolia Benxing) has had put its 5,000 t/a 2-chloro-5-chloromethylthiazole and 15,000 t/a chlorpyrifos technical (water phase process) production lines into trial production. Its 10,000 t/a sodium 3,5,6-trichloropyridin-2-olate lines have gone into operation, too. Inner Mongolia Benxing has planned multiple pesticide intermediates and pesticides TC projects in Bayinaobao Industrial Park, Alxa Economic Development Zone, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The 10,000 t/a sodium 3,5,6-trichloropyridin-2-olate is the Phase I part of Inner Mongolia Benxing's 21,000 t/a pesticide technical & intermediates project. Construction of Phase II and Phase III is yet to start. Construction content of the next two phases is as follows:

• Phase II: 2,000 t/a triclopyr technical, 2,000 t/a triclopyr-butotyl technical, 1,000 t/a penoxsulam technical and supporting facilities
• Phase III: 3,000 t/a nicosulfuron technical, 3,000 t/a quizalofop-P-ethyl technical and supporting facilities

 

The 5,000 t/a 2-chloro-5-chloromethylthiazole is an independent project. And the 15,000 t/a chlorpyrifos technical (water phase process) production lines are a part of the "15,000 t/a chlorpyrifos technical (water phase process), 5,000 t/a tebuconazole technical and 10,000 t/a epoxides (intermediates of tebuconazole technical)" project. Production devices for epoxides have been set into trial run along with chlorpyrifos lines, but the tebuconazole lines and supporting facilities are under construction at present.

 

Besides these projects, Inner Mongolia Benxing has also proposed several other pesticide intermediates and pesticides technical projects, including a 10,000 t/a thiamethoxam technical project.

 

Inner Mongolia Benxing, specialised in pesticide production and sales, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hubei Benxing Agrochemical Co., Ltd. (Hubei Benxing). It epitomised the overarching "into central and western China" trend in domestic pesticide industry under the pressures of harsher environmental protection and work safety policies in recent years. A large number of pesticide enterprises go in this direction in pursuit of broader development space, also having their eyes on rich resources there. The Bayinaobao Industrial Park, where Inner Mongolia Benxing sits, has so far attracted many pesticide manufacturers with its advantageous conditions.