China's Fujian Gulei Petrochemical plans to startup a new 600,000 mt/year ethylbenzene-based styrene monomer plant at Zhangzhou city in 2020, US-based technology provider Badger Licensing said late Monday.
The SM plant will be part of the Gulei Refining Integrated Project, an integrated refinery and petrochemical complex, Badger said in a statement.
"Basic engineering design work is about to begin, and the plant is scheduled for mechanical completion and startup in 2020," Badger said.
The SM plant, which will be located at the Gulei Economic Development Zone, in Zhangzhou city, Fujian province, will use Badger's proprietary EBMax technology.
Fujian Gulei Petrochemical is a joint venture of Dynamic Ever Investments Ltd. -- a joint venture of Taiwan shareholders -- and Fujian Petrochemical Co. Ltd. -- a joint venture of China's Sinopec and Fujian province.
Badger has recently been awarded several SM plant contracts in China, including Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical's 1.2 million mt/year SM plant, which will be built on Daxiaoyushan Island, in Zhoushan city, Zhejiang province.
The new plant, which will be one of the largest SM plants in the world, is scheduled to startup in 2018, according to a statement released by Badger in September 2017.
China's Hengli Petrochemical has also selected Badger's technology for a 720,000 mt/year SM plant in the Changxing Island economic zone in Dalian city, Liaoning province. The plant is expected to startup in 2019, the licensor had announced late March.
