The plant
that is one of the five petrochemical facilities at Iran’s styrene park in
Asalouyeh, south of the country, came online in October and supplies flammable and
inflammable grades of polystyrene.
The company currently
exports products to various counties including Germany, Italy, Russia, South
Africa, Brazil, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ukraine and the Balkans.
The facility,
with 250,000 tons of annual production capacity, is licensed by a German joint
venture firm.
Polystyrene is
a synthetic aromatic polymer made from the monomer styrene. Polystyrene can be
solid or foamed. General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and rather
brittle. It is an inexpensive resin per unit weight.