Released on 11/12/12
Dow Chemical’s US Gulf coast investment plans, including a new cracker in Texas, will raise the company’s global ethylene capacity by about 20%, the US-based producer said on Tuesday.
“The ethane flexibility actions, along with actions to restart a cracker in St Charles, Louisiana, together boost [Dow's] global ethylene capacity by about 20%,” a company spokesperson told ICIS.
Dow Chemical’s total propylene capacity will increase by about 900,000 tonnes/year and its total ethylene capacity by about 2.1m tonnes/year, the spokesperson said.
Dow said previously that its planned cracker at Freeport, Texas, will have an ethylene capacity of 1.5m tonnes/year with start-up expected for 2017.
Earlier on Tuesday, officials disclosed that Dow applied to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an air-quality permit to build the project in Freeport. The project is entering its front-end engineering and design (FEED) stage.
Source ICIS News
Dow Chemical’s US Gulf coast investment plans, including a new cracker in Texas, will raise the company’s global ethylene capacity by about 20%, the US-based producer said on Tuesday.
“The ethane flexibility actions, along with actions to restart a cracker in St Charles, Louisiana, together boost [Dow's] global ethylene capacity by about 20%,” a company spokesperson told ICIS.
Dow Chemical’s total propylene capacity will increase by about 900,000 tonnes/year and its total ethylene capacity by about 2.1m tonnes/year, the spokesperson said.
Dow said previously that its planned cracker at Freeport, Texas, will have an ethylene capacity of 1.5m tonnes/year with start-up expected for 2017.
Earlier on Tuesday, officials disclosed that Dow applied to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an air-quality permit to build the project in Freeport. The project is entering its front-end engineering and design (FEED) stage.
Source ICIS News