According to news reports, Japan’s Zeon Chemicals will delay the start-up of its already completed US$240 million SSBR plant in Singapore from July to September. However, the firm has said it will run the Singapore plant “flat-out” upon its starting it up in September.
The delay is said to be external, due to unexpected site conditions holding up construction of a stretch of public service tunnels (supplying steam and feedstock) to the plant. But once it starts up, Zeon will push ahead with expansion plans to construct the second phase of the solution styrene-butadiene (SSBR) rubber plant next year.