Dow Selects Freeport, TX Site for an On-purpose Propylene Plant

摘要

Dow Chemical says its proposed on-purpose propylene plant will be built at its Freeport, TX complex. Dow's CEO Andrew Liveris revealed the plant's location during a recent first-quarter conference call. Dow, on April 21, announced plans to build two on-purpose propylene plants, including one in Texas, with a combined capacity for 900,000 m.t./year. Dow now plans to build a world-scale on-purpose facility at Freeport, for completion in 2015, and explore options to commercialize technology to produce propylene from propane, with start up of that unit planned by 2018. These investments will reduce Dow's net purchases of propylene to less than 10% of the company's total use in the U.S., Liveris said.