China based Fujian Gulei Petrochemicals is planning to start ethyl-benzene based Styrene Monomer unit in China. This unit will have the manufacturing capacity of 6, 00,000 mt/year and will be based at Zhangzhou city of China. The SM plant will be part of the Gulei Refining Integrated Project, an integrated refinery and petrochemical complex.
Basic engineering design work is likely to begin and the plant is scheduled for mechanical completion and startup in 2020. The new plant, is regarded as one of the largest SM plants in the world, is scheduled to start up in 2018, according to a statement released by company in September 2017.
