ABA Chemicals resumes operations at 200-ton paclobutrazol technical production facility and others

ABA Chemicals, received approval from China’s Yancheng Municipal Government on August 10, 2020, to resume operations at the Jiangsu Jiannong Crop Protection Co., Ltd. after it had shut down in March 2019, following the "3.21" explosion at the Xiangshui Chemical Plant.

In the aftermath of the explosion at the Xiangshui Chemical Plant and its impact on the environmental compliance and work safety regulations in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Jiannong Crop Protection Co., Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABA Chemicals, had been temporarily shut down.

Some of the contents of the approval are listed below:

The annual 200-ton paclobutrazol and 5,000-ton chloropivalic chloride facilities in Jiannong Crop Protection Ltd. have been allowed to resume operations.

The approved running of the 200-ton paclobutrazol technical and 5,000-ton chloropivalic chloride facilities accounted for 40 to 65% of the incomes of the crop protection business of the company in 2018 while the gross profit accounted for 37.46 percent of that for crop protection in the year. 

The approval received covers only part of the production line of the Jiannong Crop Protection Ltd., and the resumption for the rest is awaiting approval.