Producer
Sinopec (China Petrochemical Corp.)
Chinese state petrochemical company (SSE/HKEx: 600028 / 0386, HQ Beijing). China's largest refiner and the world's second-largest refiner by capacity. Sinopec produces hexane at multiple refineries including Yanshan (Beijing), Maoming (Guangdong), and Zhenhai (Zhejiang) as part of naphtha fractionation. China is now largely self-sufficient in hexane supply through Sinopec and PetroChina, having reduced import dependence via domestic refinery expansion. Sinopec supplies hexane to China's domestic soybean crushing industry (China is the world's largest soybean crusher, processing ~95 million tonnes/year) — an enormous captive hexane market. Sinopec's hexane capacity is embedded in China's strategic plan for food oil self-sufficiency.
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Goods downstream
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4 inputs Sinopec (China Petrochemical Corp.) supplies
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chemical
Hexane (extraction solvent) →
chemical
HDPE/LLDPE resin & pipe →
chemical
Transformer Mineral Oil (Naphthenic Base Oil) →
chemical
Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) — PET Plastic Monomer →
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3 facilities
Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical →
CNGuangdong · manufacturing
Large integrated refinery-chemical complex; major HDPE/LLDPE producer in southern China.
Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical Complex (Guangdong) →
CNGuangdong Province · refinery
Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical Company (SMPC) in Maoming, Guangdong; one of China's largest refinery-chemical integrated complexes (~22.5 million tonnes/year crude capacity). Produces hexane from naphtha fractionation for southern China oilseed crushing markets (Guangdong is a major soybean import and crushing hub). Maoming feeds hexane to Guangdong-based soybean crushing operations that process soybeans imported via the Port of Huangpu/Nansha. Source: https://www.sinopec.com/listco/Resource/Pdf/2023annualreport_en.pdf
Sinopec Tianjin Petrochemical (SSTPC) →
CNTianjin · manufacturing
SABIC/Sinopec JV; 9 world-scale plants producing HDPE, LLDPE, PP, and polycarbonate. Est. 2009. One of largest single-campus PE complexes globally.
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Refining
50%Petrochemicals
30%Marketing & Distribution
15%Exploration & Production
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Did you know2024
Sinopec (China Petrochemical Corp.) is the world's largest polyethylene producer — yet it is better known globally as China's 2nd-largest oil company (after PetroChina/CNPC), one of the top-3 largest companies in the world by revenue (~$789B/yr). HDPE production is a downstream footnote in an empire built on crude refining and gasoline.
China Petrochemical Corporation ↗Concentration2024
China's drive for hexane self-sufficiency is directly linked to its food security strategy: China crushes ~95 million tonnes of soybeans per year (more than 60% of global crushing capacity), importing soybeans primarily from Brazil and Argentina, then crushing them domestically. The hexane required for this crushing — historically imported from Korean and US suppliers — is increasingly produced domestically by Sinopec and PetroChina to reduce foreign dependency. China has thus achieved a supply chain integration from soybean import → domestic crushing → domestic hexane supply that makes its edible oil production largely independent of Western chemical supply chains. This mirrors China's strategy in other critical input supply chains: import the primary commodity (soybeans) while owning the processing chemistry (hexane) domestically.
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service ↗