Chemicals represent a pillar industry and one of the core businesses of Risun. Originating from coke production, the Group has utilized a vertical integration development model to forge distinctive chemical industry chains in carbon materials, aromatics, alcohols, and ammonia, among others. With 59 chemical production lines and 4 high-purity hydrogen production lines, Risun has established itself as the world's largest processor of coke crude benzene, the second-largest processor of high-temperature coal tar globally, the second-largest producer of caprolactam worldwide, China's largest producer of phthalic anhydride from industrial naphthalene, China's largest producer of methanol from coke oven gas, and the largest supplier of high-purity hydrogen in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China.
The Risun Chemical operations are distributed across various base and companies within the Group, located in Xingtai, Dingzhou, Laoting, Cangzhou in Hebei Province; Yuncheng, Dongming, Juye in Shandong Province; Pingdingshan in Henan Province; Hohhot in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; Jilin City in Jilin Province; and Xiaoyi in Shanxi Province. With a total operating capacity of 6.89 million tons/year, the main products include: Deep-processed tar: 1 million tons/year; Coal tar: 684,000 tons/year; Phthalic anhydride: 160,000 tons/year; Refined phenol: 10,000 tons/year; Carbon black: 130,000 tons/year; Methanol: 6.5 million tons/year;Ammonium sulfate: 12.79 million tons/year; Synthetic ammonia: 6.5 million tons/year; Crude benzene: 170,000 tons/year; Benzene hydrogenation: 5.8 million tons /year; Nitric acid: 3 million tons/year; Caprolactam: 7.5 million tons/year; Styrene: 3 million tons/year; Fine chemicals: 1,000 tons/year; Hydrogen resources: 2.045 billion standard cubic meters/year; High-purity hydrogen: 97 million standard cubic meters/year; Aniline: 0.36 million tons/year.
Within the Risun Chemical base and factories, there are 11 national high-tech enterprises, 1 national-level green base, 3 national-level green factories, 1 national-level green supply chain management demonstration enterprise, 3 national energy efficiency leaders, 2 national water efficiency leaders, 8 environmental performance A-grade enterprises, and 1 Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory for Pollution Reduction and Control in Coal Chemical Industry, placing it at the forefront of environmental protection in the industry.