On June 14, installation of the tug towing winches for the purification dryers of Jiangsu Honggang Petrochemical Project was completed. The 4 driers of the Honggang PTA Project are the rotating equipment with weight about 380 tons each, which is the single largest rotating equipment in the Project, and their installation is difficult and accuracy of installation is also high. Each of the 4 tug towing winches of the two purification dryers installed this time weighs about 30 tons. The site preparations had been well ready for the equipment mobilization. After intense work for 2 hours, all the 4 towing winches were successfully installed in place.
On June 15, construction of the pipe rack steel structure of Dalian Hengli PTA Project started by erecting its first upright column. Following it commenced the silo cone by the Engineering Team, and within just 15 minutes, the silo cone was seated firmly into the preformed holes. The safe and smooth completion of the two hoisting tasks marked the official kick-off of the installation work of Dalian Hengli PTA Project.
On June 16, the Xylene column of the Hainan Refinery & Chemical Project, referred to as “No. 1 Tower in Asia”, welcomed a smooth topping-out. With total height of 126.45 meters and weighing up to 4011 tons (excluding the column internals), the column was hoisted and erected in totally 9 sections, characterized by “tall, heavy and over-sized” operations. Starting from hoisting and erection of the first section on December 26, 2012, the entire hoisting and erection work lasted 6 months in total. Thanks to concerted efforts of crew of the Hainan Refinery & Chemical Project, who had overcome a host of difficulties as limitations of construction site, and scorching climate of Hainan, etc., the hoisting and erection were smoothly concluded. The successful topping-out of the Xylene column had received high attention from SNEI, Client, Design contractor, etc.