Global Data said global plan for the new ethylene capacity analysis shows that from 2018 to 2022, the United States is the world's new largest ethylene production capacity of the country , Will add 10 million tons / year of ethylene production capacity, ranked second in China will add 8 million tons / year, ranked third in Iran will add 6 million tons / year.
According to the plans announced so far, the new ethylene production capacity in the U.S. plan will account for 33% of the world's new ethylene production capacity by 2022. Eight new ethylene plants will be set up in the United States during the analysis period, of which Formosa Plastics' PointComfort 3 The largest designed capacity for ethylene and ExxonMobil ethylene units was 2.3 Mt / yr.