Singapore (Platts)--4Feb2013/538 am EST/1038 GMT

China's Sinopec Anqing Petrochemical has achieved on-specification output at its new 130,000 mt/year acrylonitrile plant at eastern Anhui province, the company said in a statement on its website Monday.

The company injected feedstock into the plant on January 31, and achieved on-spec output at 10:46 pm local time (1446 GMT) on February 2, it said.

The plant was initially supposed to come online in September 2012. But this was delayed due to technical issues, Platts reported earlier citing market sources.

The unit is currently running at around 70% of its capacity, a source with another Chinese ACN producer said Monday.

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Sinopec Anqing Petrochemical has another 80,000 mt/year ACN plant at the same location. The current run rate at this unit is not known.

--Chen Huixin, huixin_chen@platts.com
--Edited by Deepa Vijiyasingam, deepa_vijiyasingam@platts.com

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