Saudi Polymers starts polystyrene marketing drive ahead of plant startup |
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(plastemart) -- Saudi Polymers has begun marketing
product from its new 200,000 tpa polystyrene plant in March, despite a delay in
startup.
A polystyrene converter has received offers from Saudi Polymers
on their general purpose grade polystyrene crystals, but declined to comment on
price details or volumes. Samples will be received from Saudi Polymers.
Thereafter, it will take three months to test the GPPS and about 9-12 months to
test the high impact polystyrene before placing an order.
The PS plant
will receive styrene monomer feedstock from Jubail Chevron Philips Company"s
777,000 tpa styrene monomer plant at Al Jubail. Prior to the startup of the PS
plant, Chevron Philips had been shipping around 10,000-15,000 mt/month of
styrene out to its storage facilities in the Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp
area. Chevron Philips leased two storage facilities owned by Vopak in the ARA
area but gave up on those agreements in 2012 as the excess styrene would be
channeled as feed for the PS plant.
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Saudi Polymers" integrated petrochemicals
complex is built around an ethane-propane mix gas cracker, with the capacity to
produce 1.165 mln tpa of ethylene and 445,000 tpa of propylene. The entire
olefins production is slated for captive use. Downstream from the cracker there
is also a 400,000 tpa polypropylene plant and a 100,000 tpa 1-Hexane
plant.
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