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Dow expects that the retrofit will enable it to continue to meet growing demand for its businesses serving consumer, infrastructure, and packaging end markets while also remaining within its stated near-term capital expenditure targets.
Dow recently announced that it will retrofit proprietary fluidized catalytic dehydrogenation (FCDh) technology into one of its mixed-feed crackers in Plaquemine, La., to produce on-purpose propylene.
The joint venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, called Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, received final environmental regulatory approval in June 2019 to build an ethane steam cracker, two polyethylene, units and a monoethylene glycol unit.
ExxonMobil and SABIC recently announced the decision to proceed with the construction of a chemical facility and a 1.8 Mt ethane steam cracker in San Patricio County, Texas.
As the U.S. and China negotiate the sequencing of tariff removal, SOCMA reports that it is proactively monitoring and advocating on behalf of the specialty chemical industry.
The Trump Administration’s decision to raise tariff rates from 10 to 25% on $200 billion in Chinese imports will disproportionately burden specialty chemical manufacturers, according to a statement released by the Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA).