South Africa's Sasol Ltd. Is to build the world's first commercial ethylene tetramerization unit with capacity to produce over 100,000 tpa of combined 1-octene and 1-hexene. The unit will be located at the company's Lake Charles production site in Louisiana, with construction set to begin in 2011 and reach operation in mid-2013. 1-octene and 1-hexene are used in the manufacture of linear low density and high density polyethylene and elastomers
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