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Toyo Engineering Gets Design, Catalyst Order for Chinese Fuel Plant

Posted on: Wednesday, 4 January 2006, 12:00 CST

By Kyodo News International, Tokyo

Jan. 4--TOKYO -- Toyo Engineering Corp. said Wednesday it has landed a Chinese order to design the world's biggest factory for environmentally friendly fuel dimethyl ether and supply catalysts for the facility.

The factory, to be built in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwestern China, will annually manufacture 210,000 tons of the fuel and be run by Ningxia Coal Group Co., a Chinese state-run coal firm.

The project will constitute part of China's chemical industrial complex construction projects. The Ningxia project calls for gasifying coal to produce dimethyl ether. China has abundant coal reserves.

The fuel will be locally consumed. The plant will help China cut dependency on oil, while limiting industrial pollution, the company said.

Toyo Engineering is presently building another dimethyl ether plant with an annual output capacity of 110,000 tons in the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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Source: Kyodo News International, Tokyo

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