Badger Licensing LLC (Boston, Mass.; www.badgerlicensing.com) has announced that Qingdao Soda Ash Industrial New Material & Technology Co. has selected Badger’s proprietary technology for a grassroots ethylbenzene/styrene monomer (EB/SM) plant with a capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) being built in Dongjiakou Port Industrial Zone Park, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China.
The technology license is being contracted through Badger’s affiliate, Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology, Inc., which is also supplying engineering, technical services and selected critical equipment for the plant.
The new plant, one of the largest EB/SM plants in China, will utilize Badger’s proprietary EBMax technology integrated with Badger’s styrene technology. Basic engineering design work has begun and the plant is scheduled for mechanical completion and startup in 2017.