# INEOS Styrolution plans 600,000 t/y ABS plant in Ningbo, China

INEOS Styrolution announced plans to build a world-scale ABS plant in Ningbo, China, with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes. Construction is expected to start in 2020 and completion is planned for 2023.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2020-01-09
- Where: Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China
- Value: $800.0M
- Starts operating: 2023
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 600,000 tonnes per year
- Products: ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene)
- Sectors: [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [INEOS Styrolution](https://endata.com/companies/4374.md)
- [INEOS](https://endata.com/companies/9807.md) (investor)

## Sources

- [ineos.com](https://www.ineos.com/businesses/ineos-styrolution/news/ineos-styrolution-invests-in-abs-world-scale-plant-in-china/), 2020-01-09: "INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, has announced today plans to build a world-scale ABS plant in Ningbo, China."
- [canplastics.com](https://www.canplastics.com/materials/ineos-styrolution-to-build-world-scale-abs-plant-in-china/1003451884/), 2020-01-09: "In an effort to tap into what it calls “the biggest ABS market in the world”, styrenics supplier Ineos Styrolution has announced today plans to build a world-scale ABS plant in Ningbo, China."
- [allbrightlaw.com](https://www.allbrightlaw.com/EN/10454/EDCDC74D0A800DC7.aspx), 2020-01-11: "The signing ceremony of the 600,000-ton ABS investment project led by INEOS Styrolution was held in the Ningbo Municipal Government on January 9, 2020."
- [cen.acs.org](https://cen.acs.org/policy/trade/Investment-flows-trade-deal-China/98/i3), 2020-01-16: "Ineos Styrolution announced plans to build an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) polymer plant in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang."

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