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10-12 | Dubai, UAE : Grace Oh : Cmtevents.com/aboutevent. UNVIABLE OPERATIONS
UTECH Middle East Foam & Poly-  : +65 6346 9147 aspx?ev=241018&
urethane Expo  : Grace@cmtsp.com.sg Ineos Styrolution to permanently close Sarnia site
Media Fusion & Crain Communications : Cmtevents.com/aboutevent. 16-17 | Bangkok, Thailand
: Ms. Fatima Khan aspx?ev=241022& 2nd Sustainable Feedstocks for the by June 2026
: +91-84461 76554 Future of Chemicals & Plastics Asia
 : Fatimakhan@mediafusionme.com 15-17 | Berlin, Germany Centre for Management Technology Styrenics specialist, Ineos Styrolu- “The production site in Sarnia is cur- ments that are unrelated to the potential
: Ifpuexpo.com 7th EU Starch Value Chain Pte. Ltd. tion, is permanently closing its styrene rently shut down due to recent orders costs of restarting operations would
Centre for Management Technology : Grace Oh monomer production site in Sarnia, from regulatory authorities that forced be necessary in the near future. Such
19-21 | Shanghai, China
ICIF China 2024 21st China Pte. Ltd.  : +65 6346 9147 Ontario (Canada) by June 2026. us to declare force majeure. We are cur- investments would be economically
International Chemical Industry Fair : Hafizah Adam  : Grace@cmtsp.com.sg rently assessing what is required to re- impractical given today’s challenging
CCPIT Sub-Council of Chemical  : +65 6817 5744 : Cmtevents.com/aboutevent. “This diffi cult business decision to start the site – a process that could take industry environment,” he added. The
Industry  : Hafizah@cmtsp.com.sg aspx?ev=241023& permanently close our Sarnia site was approximately six months.” Sarnia styrene facility was built by the
: Mao Menglin made following a lengthy evaluation Canadian Polymer Crown company
 : +86-10-6428 5845 process and is based on the economics “Our decision to permanently close in 1943 with a capacity of 50-mn lbs/
 : Maoml@ccpitchem.org.cn of the facility within a wider industry the Sarnia site by June 2026 is irrespec- year. Over the years, the site continued
: Icif.cn context. The long-term prospects for tive of the current situation. The eco- to expand its footprint under different
24-26 | Seoul, South Korea INDIA the Sarnia site have worsened to the nomic reality is that we have made signi- ownership structures to ultimately be
point that it is no longer an economi-
fi cant investments in the Sarnia site wholly owned by Ineos in 2014.
3rd Circular Plastics Asia cally viable operating asset,” said the for many years to ensure safe and reliable The site has a nameplate capacity of
Centre for Management Technology company’s CEO, Mr. Steve Harrington. operations. Additional large invest- 430-ktpa of styrene monomer.
Pte. Ltd.
: Hafizah Adam EXPANSION
 : +65 6817 5744
 : Hafizah@cmtsp.com.sg Röhm expands capacity of speciality moulding
: Cmtevents.com/aboutevent.
aspx?ev=240916& compounds at US plant
25-26 | Sao Paulo, Brazil German methacrylate specialist,
In-cosmetics Latin America Röhm, has expanded production capa-
Reed Exhibitions Limited R R city of speciality moulding compounds
: Pallavi Oak at the Wallingford plant in Connecticut
 : +91-22 6771 6607 (USA). This was achieved by modify-
: +91-99873 85741 ing and redeploying an existing produc-
: In-cosmetics.com/latin-america/ tion line at the Wallingford site and will
en-gb.html help meet increasing demand globally.
October 2024
2-3 | Jakarta, Indonesia Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)
Monetizing PALM & AGRI products from Röhm are sold on the
WASTE FEEDSTOCKS European, Asian, African and Aus- wide and is driving forward the expan- in PMMA moulding compounds and
Applications & Technologies tralian continent under the registered sion of capacities, both in production ranks second on a global scale. Started
Centre for Management Technology trademark Plexiglas and in the Americas and in technical service, in all relevant as an independent company almost
Pte. Ltd. 29 30 APRIL 2025 under the registered trademark regions. We are the only global manu- fi ve years ago with the goal of creat-
: Hafizah Adam HALL 2, 3 & 6 | BEC | MUMBAI Acrylite. The Wallingford facility facturer of MMA and PMMA, com- ing the leading methacrylate Verbund,
 : +65 6817 5744 operates several production lines that plete with downstream compounding, Röhm is well on its way to achieving
 : Hafizah@cmtsp.com.sg manufacture specialty PMMA mould- in all three important regions of Asia, this target. The central component of
: Cmtevents.com/aboutevent. ing compounds. The site is also a key Europe and North America,” said the strategy and the fl agship project is
aspx?ev=240925& production site for Cyrolite, a transpa- Mr. Siamak Djafarian, Senior Vice Presi- the construction of a production plant
8-9 | Nairobi, Kenya rent, acrylic-based plastic especially for dent and Head of Röhm’s Moulding for methyl methacrylate (MMA) in Bay
13th Africa Cementrade Summit medical applications. Compounds business unit. City, Texas (USA) where the innova-
Centre for Management Technology tive LiMA technology developed by
Pte. Ltd. “Röhm is a reliable partner world- Röhm is the European market leader Röhm is used.

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