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(plastemart) -- Westlake Chemical
Corp is to commence construction of a new chlor-alkali plant at its vinyls
manufacturing complex in Geismar, Louisiana, at an investment of US$250-300 mln.
Capacity will include 250,000 electrochemical units (ECU's) annually, bringing
the total estimated ECU capacity to 525,000 pa. This project, targeted for
start-up in H2-2013, will utilise state of the art membrane technology and will
be adjacent to the existing vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) facilities at the Geismar
complex.
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