text: 17 December 2008 15:15 [Source: ICIS news]
  LONDON (ICIS news)--German technology company Uhde has won a contract to build an aromatics plant for China’s Risun Chemical Co, which is due to come online in Tangshan, in Heibei province, in 2010, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
  According to the statement, the plant will have a throughput capacity of 200,000 tonnes/year of coke oven light oil, producing benzene, toluene and xylenes.
  A source close to the company said the successful contracts were worth a total of around €10-20m ($14-28m).
  Risun Chemical is a subsidiary of the Risun Group.
  Combined with a second plant in Xingtai, which is based on Uhde technology, Risun's total production capacity of coke oven light oil will be 260,000 tonnes/year.
  The deal brings the number of contracts won for Uhde to six in the last 15 months, the statement said.
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  Pyrolysis gasoline, or BTX (benzene, toluene, xylenes), can be produced by a number of routes, predominately via the cracking of naphtha in
  Uhde’s technology allows coke producers to better utilise the BTX, which is a natural by-product of their production process, the source said.
  ($1 = €0.72)