Ethylbenzene capacity additions to be driven by Asia

The company’s report, ‘Global Ethylbenzene Industry Outlook to 2023 – Capacity and Capital Expenditure Forecasts with Details of All Active and Planned Plants’, reveals that Asia is expected to have a planned and announced ethylbenzene capacity of 6.70 million tpy by 2023.

Dayanand Kharade, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, says: “Planned plants account for most of the new-build capacity in the region. ‘Zhejiang Petrochemical Daishan Ethylbenzene Plant 1’ is the plant with highest capacity addition of 1.3 million tpy by 2023.”

Following Asia, GlobalData identified Africa as the second highest region in terms of capacity addition in the global ethylbenzene industry. The region will add a new-build capacity of 760 000 tpy by 2023.

‘Tahrir Petrochemicals Company Ain Sokhna Ethylbenzene Plant’ and ‘Egyptian Styrene & Polystyrene Production Company Alexandria Ethylbenzene Plant’ in Egypt are the two upcoming plants in Africa, which will account for the region’s entire capacity growth by 2023.

South America stands third with new-build ethylbenzene capacity of 540 000 tpy by 2023. Brazil will account for all the capacity growth in the region with one upcoming plant.

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