navigation search ptt global chemical public company limited type public traded as set pttgc industry oil and petrochemical founded 19 october 2011 headquarters 555 1 energy complex building a 14th 18th floor chatuchak bangkok thailand key people mr.bowon vongsinudom president & ceo mr. prasert bunsumpun chairman of the board products petroleum aromatics olefins polymers eo based performance greenchemical high volume specialties revenue us 16.26 billion 2014 1 net income us 421.76 million 2014 1 total assets us 11.35 billion 2014 1 total equity us 6.71 billion 2014 1 parent ptt group website www.pttgcgroup.com ptt global chemical public company limited pttgc is a subsidiary of ptt public company limited . it was founded on 19 october 2011 through the amalgamation of ptt chemical public company limited and ptt aromatics and refining public company limited to be the chemical flagship of ptt group . 2 contents 1 company 2 products 2.1 aromatics and downstream products 2.2 olefins 2.3 refined products 2.4 polymers 3 strategic plans 4 external links 5 references company edit pttgc is thailand s largest petrochemical and refining company with a capacity of producing daily 280 000 barrels of crude oil and condensate and annually 8.75 million tons of olefins and aromatics . since the merger pttgc benefits from reduced manufacturing cost due to the large volumes and reduced overhead cost by delivering value added products within the downstream specialties sector under the same management umbrella . 2 pttgc was listed in the top 10 of the dow jones sustainability indices djsi for two consecutive years and was ranked twenty second among world leading petrochemical companies on the icis top 100 chemical companies listing . the company has seven main business lines . it focuses on investing into the expansion of specialties chemical products and green chemicals . 3 pttgc also owns and operates production support facilities such as jetty and buffer tank farm services for liquid chemical oil and gas . minor activities are production and distribution of electricity water steam and other utilities . 4 products edit aromatics and downstream products edit pttgc produces and distributes aromatics and downstream products at two locations in rayong at the map ta phut industrial estate and the ril industrial estate . the total aromatics production including benzene paraxylene cyclohexane orthoxylene toluene and mixed xylenes sums up to 2 259 000 tons per year . 5 olefins edit pttgc s olefins plants use natural gas and naphtha as feedstock and are flexibile regarding raw material use . the main products are ethylene propylene mixed c4 and pyrolysis gasoline . 6 refined products edit pttgc s refined petroleum products has a capacity of 280 000 barrels per day of crude oil and condensate intake with various high quality petroleum products with total capacity of 228 000 barrels per day . 7 the products are classified in three groups heavy distillates such as fuel oil middle distillates consisting of jet fuel and diesel light distillates consisting of lpg light naphtha and reformate the crude refining unit is a complex refinery with hydrocracker and visbreaker units capable of converting fuel oil into middle distillates . this unit refines crude oil into products which may include reformate for delivery to aromatics complex . it has a capacity of 145 000 barrels day . the condensate splitter unit 1 and 2 produce reformate for delivery to the aromatics complex along with other petroleum products including light naphtha lpg and condensate residue . they have a capacity of 70 000 and 65 000 barrels day respectively . 7 polymers edit pttgc s high quality polymer resins are produced according to international standards in an environmentally friendly manner . these are used by the manufacturing industry for producing a wide range of plastic products . 8 the product range covers 42 grades of hdpe 9 grades of ldpe 11 grades of lldpe 7 grades of ps it was the first polymer producer in thailand that obtained the carbon footprint label from thailand greenhouse gas management organization above mentioned 69 grades of polymers . 8 pttgc netherlands has acquired perstorp s 34 % stake in french chemical maker vencorex and thus increased its interest in vencorex to 85 % which strengthens its presence in the downstream polyurethane market . thus it can expand production of toluene diisocyanate tdi and hexamethylene diisocyanate hdi and its derivatives in order to meet demand in asian markets . these chemicals are used as feedstock in manufacturing polyurethanes which are used in foams and coatings for the automobile and construction industries . 9 strategic plans edit the american subsidiary of pttgc plans to invest 100 million for detailed engineering design of a world scale cracker on a site in mead township on the west bank of the ohio river in belmont county ohio . it will take up to one year to determine the feasibility of an ethane cracker in collabotation with two consortiums of engineering firms led by bechtel enterprises holdings inc and fluor corporation which will conduct the preliminary front end engineering design work and cost estimates . the construction would require a multibillion dollar investment . the ethane cracker would process ethane extracted from the region s marcellus and utica shale formations into ethylene which is a basis for common plastics and resins . pttgc wants to finalise their investment decision in 2016 or 2017 . should the project go ahead it would need approximately three and a half years to complete the construction of the ethane cracker facility . 3 pttgc wants to reduce external sales and exports of its upstream products by investing in more of its own downstream plants . the amont of 1 billion has been allocated for its map ta phut retrofit project in rayong which will be converted from using ethane gas to using naphtha instead . 80 % of naphta were previously sold to the more innovative siam chemicals group or to export markets . the feedstock conversion will enable pttgc s olefins factory to produce a wider range of chemicals . pttgc plans to build its own plants or expand production of products such as polyethylene ethylene glycols and ethylene oxide butadiene and polystyrene . pttcg could produce in collaboration with joint venture partners polypropylene acrylic acid super acrylic polymer styrene monomer methyl methacrylate styrene acrylonitrile butadiene styrene and styrene acrylonitrile polymers solution styrene butadiene rubber thermoplastic elastomers polybutadiene and several polymer compounds . 10 pttgc has allocated 3 % of its net profit for research and development on high value products . it wants to increase the revenue from high value products from currently 4 % to 20 % of its petrochemical revenue in the next 10 years . pttgc will set up a joint venture with one of thailand s leading sugar producers to build a bio plastic industrial estate with an estimated investment of 5 billion baht 143 million . the site will be located in central thailand to benefit from growing sugarcane producing sugar making ethanol generating electricity from biomass based power plants and setting up a bio plastic manufacturing plant in the same area . 11 external links edit ptt global chemical pttgc america references edit a b c d pttgc financial data y e 14 31 12 2014 then using the august 21 2015 exchange rate of 1 baht 0.02812 us dollar a b pttgc who we are . www.pttgcgroup.com . retrieved 28 november 2015 . a b ptt global chemical set to invest more than 100m in eastern ohio site . thai company assessing belmont county site for potential construction of multibillion dollar petrochemical complex . the new ohio . 3 september 2015 . retrieved 28 november 2015 . ft markets data ptt global chemical . retrieved 29 november 2015 . pttgc aromatics . www.pttgcgroup.com . retrieved 28 november 2015 . pttgc olefins . www.pttgcgroup.com . retrieved 28 november 2015 . a b pttgc refinery . www.pttgcgroup.com . retrieved 28 november 2015 . a b pttgc polymers . www.pttgcgroup.com . retrieved 28 november 2015 . ptt global chemical increases stake in french chemical firm vencorex . chemicals technology . 1 september 2014 . retrieved 29 november 2015 . pttgc to invest 7.7 bn in 5 years . the nation . 18 november 2015 . retrieved 29 november 2015 . ekvitthayavechnukul chalida . thailand s pttgc to set up 143m jv for bio plastic industrial estate . deal street asia . retrieved 29 november 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ptt global chemical public company limited & oldid 742913557 categories chemical companies of thailandcompanies based in bangkokcompanies listed on the stock exchange of thailandptt group navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent 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