China's leading styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer (TPES) manufacturer NBCH Polymer Technology Group raised investment projects in 2019. One of the projects is a 20,000 tons/year SEPS production project.
SEPS can be used as filling grease for optical fibers and cables required for 5G construction. It has excellent thixotropy, suitable viscosity and high and low temperature performance, and is an ideal material choice.
Before 2017, China's national SEPS products had been all dependent on imports. With the increase in China's demand, the import volume continued to increase. It was not until the start of the SEPS project of China BL Petrochemical Technology Group in the second half of 2017 that China started the SEPS product industry. Chemical production has filled the gaps in the R&D and production of SEPS products in China, and has achieved partial substitution of imported products.
Through years of R&D accumulation and technological breakthroughs, NBCH has mastered the core technology of industrialized production of SEPS products with independent intellectual property rights. The 20,000-ton/year SEPS technical transformation project is in the construction period and will become China’s successor to BL petrochemical after its successful operation. The second company with SEPS industrialization capabilities. By then, China's independent production capacity of SEPS products will be further improved, further alleviating China's import dependence on SEPS products