Braskem Receives Board Approval For R$500-MM 'Green' PE Project

摘要

Sao Paulo-Braskem's board of directors has approved the company's plan to invest R$500-million in construction of a "green" polyethylene (PE) project in the Southern Petrochemical Complex in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state (PCN, 10 Nov 08, p 3). Braskem earlier said the plant would produce 200,000 t/y of PE using about 450-million liters a year of ethanol from sugarcane as feedstock.