Jinneng Science And Technology Company Limited

Jinneng Science and Technology makes sorbic acid and potassium sorbate, the food preservatives, and p-cresol, an intermediate used in antioxidants and fragrance chemicals. Those lines sit inside a larger coal and fine chemicals business whose other output includes coke, methanol, carbon black, silica, propylene and polypropylene.

The company was founded in 2004 at Qihe in Dezhou, Shandong, and has been listed on the Shanghai stock exchange since May 2017 under the code 603113. It is organised around resource recycling, with output from the coking units feeding the downstream chemical plants on the same site. It runs a national enterprise technology centre and laboratory and has appeared for several years in the ranking of China's 500 largest chemical companies.