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Shanghai Gaoqiao Petrochemical plans to build a styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) plant and an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) unit in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park at Caojing, Shanghai, China. (Acquisitions, expansions).


Shanghai Gaoqiao Petrochemical plans to build a styrene sty·rene
n.
A colorless oily liquid from which polystyrenes, plastics, and synthetic rubber are produced. Also called vinylbenzene.
 butadiene butadiene (byt'ədī`ēn), colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon. There are two structural isomers of butadiene; they differ in the location of the two carbon-carbon double bonds in the  rubber (SBR SBR - Spectral Band Replication ) plant and an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or ABS, (chemical formula (C8H8· C4H6·C3H3N)n) is a common thermoplastic used to make light, rigid, molded products such as piping, musical instruments (most  (ABS) unit in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park at Caojing, Shanghai, China. Talks are being held with potential licensors who have been invited to own stakes in the projects. Gaoqiao, a Sinopec subsidiary, has entered into advanced licensing and equity talks with a Japanese company for the $80 million, 100,000 metric tons per year SBR project, and shortlisted one or two licensors for the ABS project. The company plans to start construction in June, with the projects starting up in mid-2005.
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Date:Apr 1, 2003
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