MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Dow Chemical Company has recently announced its plan to invest in an alkoxylation facility on the US Gulf Coast, according to Kemicalinfo.
Upon completion, this new facility will support global growth in Dow’s core end-markets related to infrastructure and home and personal care, as well as additional end-markets where Dow continues to strengthen its position for the TRITON, TERGITOL, ECOSURF and CARBOWAX SENTRY brands, the company stated in a press release.
"We continue to see strong demand, well ahead of global GDP, across multiple consumers, industrial and manufacturing sectors," said Ester Baiget, Business President for Dow Industrial Solutions. "These investments will build on Dow’s recent US Gulf Coast investments; they will expand production capacity and enable Dow to meet customer and value chain needs for alkoxylate products."
The new alkoxylation facility is expected to come online by the end of 2021. This expansion is in addition to various incremental debottlenecking projects being conducted across Dow’s global alkoxylation production units. These projects will support growing customer demand across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
As MRC reported before, Dow Chemical's propylene dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Freeport, Texas, was offline in October - November, 2019, for a turnaround, said US olefin market participants. Sources said the PDH unit went offline for scheduled maintenance September 26, and the work was expected to last 45-60 days. Originally, sources expected the turnaround to begin in early September, but then learned it had been delayed.
Propylene is a feedstock for the production of polyprolypele (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's overall PP production rose to about 1,163,200 tonnes in the first ten months of 2018, up by 1.3% year on year. Three producers out of seven reduced the capacity utilisation.
The Dow Chemical Company is an American multinational chemical corporation. Dow is a large producer of plastics, including polystyrene, polyurethane, polyethylene, polypropylene, and synthetic rubber.
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