Lanzhou to start up China SBR unit end-March

10 March 2008 04:07  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Lanzhou Petrochemical plans to start up a new styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) plant by end-March and will begin work on an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) project soon, a company source said on Monday.

Trial runs at the 100,000 tonne/year SBR plant at Lanzhou, Gansu province, has started and it was expected to begin commercial operations by the end of this month, source from the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) unit added.

The company has also started basic engineering design on a 50,000 tonne/year NBR project which could be completed by the end of this year, the source said. He could not say how much the project will cost.

Butadiene (BD), styrene monomer (SM) and acrylontrile (ACN) feedstocks would be available internally from a new 450,000 tonne/year cracker complex which started up in November 2006.

Lanzhou currently produces 50,000 tonnes of SBR and 15,000 tonnes of NBR annually.

By: Florence Tan
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