Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, has received approval of environmental impact assessments (EIA) by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection to build a 100,000 tpa liquid epoxy resin (LER) plant and a 150,000 tpa glycerine-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) by the end of 2010. The LER and GTE plants will further strengthen Dow Epoxy's ability to meet growing customer needs in China, particularly in its core markets of coatings, electrical laminates and civil engineering. They are scheduled for completion in 2010 and 2011 respectively. The LER plant will be the first worldwide that will recycle the purified, salt water byproduct as feedstock to the chlorine plant in the chemical complex instead of discharging into the sea.
EIA is a method and system adopted by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection to assess the possible environmental impact : positive or negative, of a proposed project. The EIA allows the Ministry to propose countermeasures to prevent or mitigate adverse environmental impacts. All proposed chemical projects in China must obtain approvals for an EIA before construction.
04-Sep-08 
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