Expandable Polystyrene - Economics

The INEOS Technologies expandable polystyrene processes offer the benefit of excellent capital and operating costs coupled with broad and competitive product ranges well accepted on the market worldwide.

The competitive operating and investment cost advantages are achieved through the use of:

• Proprietary reactor designs with high reactor productivity allowing the highest capacity  offers of the market
• Optimized chemically-initiated polymerisation systems
• An efficient downstream continuous drying and coating system (EPS)
• An optional pentane recovery unit leading to outstanding raw material yields and best in class VOC emission levels

These combined with excellent operating reliability and high on-stream times ensure that our licensees have a process that is both competitive and operationally robust.