Summary: On 9 June, the EI report of Shandong Jingbo Biotech's industrial chain extension to 16,000 t/a green high-end chemicals and technological upgrading and transformation project (phase I) was approved by local government. The company plans to build production lines for flonicamid TC and tebufenozide TC with this project.

On 9 June, the Bureau of Administrative Examination and Approval of Binzhou City announced that it had approved the environmental impact (EI) report of Shandong Jingbo Biotech Co., Ltd. (Shandong Jingbo Biotech)'s industrial chain extension to 16,000 t/a green high-end chemicals and technological upgrading and transformation project (phase I). The phase I will add some new equipment to its existing line for 4-(trifluoromethyl)nicotinoyl chloride (molecular formula: C₇H₃F₃OClN), and extend to the production of flonicamid TC with capacity of 500 t/a.

Previously in March and May this year, local government announced acceptance of the EI reports for the company's industrial chain extension and technological upgrading and transformation project phase I and phase II. The project has already acquired a record certificate for construction project (project code: 2301-371603-07-02-212392) issued by Shandong provincial government. Shandong Jingbo Biotech has planned to invest USD4.23 million (RMB30.04 million) in the whole project, which will transform its existing refining workshops No.3 and No.4. According to its plan, in refining workshops No.3, new equipment will be added to use 4-trifluoromethylnicotinoyl chloride as a main raw material to produce flonicamid TC, and in refining workshops No.4, already existed 1,200 t/a line for the product 4-amino-1-(2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-oxathiolan-5-yl)pyrimidin-2(1H)-one will be made use of and a new line of 400 t/a tebufenozide TC will be added.

Shandong Jingbo Biotech was established by Shandong Jingbo Agrochemicals Technology Co., Ltd. in Nov. 2019. Its registered business scope covers R&D, production and sale of chemical products, development, transfer and services of technologies in biological and environmental protection sectors, etc. Its plant is located in the Chemical Industrial Park of Zhanhua Economic Development Zone, Binzhou City, Shandong Province. The park is a provincial-level accredited chemical park.

The company believes the industrial chain extension and technological upgrading and transformation project will boost its competitiveness both at home and abroad, speed up its structural adjustment, facilitate healthy development in the future, promote improvement in related industries and better satisfy the needs for a variety of high-end products in the market.