Shaw Stone & Webster, a unit of the Shaw Group Inc. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction services contract by The Kuwait Styrene Company K.S.C. (TKSC), a joint venture between Dow Europe Holding B.V., a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and Kuwait Aromatics Company K.S.C. (KARO) for an ethylbenzene styrene monomer (EBSM) plant to be built in Kuwait. The plant, which will produce up to 500,000 metric tpa of ethylbenzene and 450,000 metric tpa styrene monomer, will be built within the existing EQUATE complex. Work will commence immediately for the plant, with start-up scheduled for 2008.
The new ethylbenzene plant will utilize proprietary EBMax technology provided by Badger Licensing LLC, a joint venture of Shaw Stone & Webster and ExxonMobil Chemical Company. Dow Europe Holding will provide the styrene monomer technology.
06-Feb-06 
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