Dow METEOR™ Technology Selected For New Meglobal Facility On The U.S. Gulf Coast

Dow METEOR™ Technology selected for new MEGlobal facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast

12-Jul-16

The Dow Chemical Company announced that MEGlobal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EQUATE Petrochemical Company, has undertaken a competitive evaluation process and has selected Dow METEOR™ Ethylene Oxide/Ethylene Glycol (EO/EG) Process Technology and METEOR™ EO-RETRO Catalyst to construct its monoethylene glycol (MEG) production facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast – its first manufacturing unit in the U.S.

“We are very pleased that MEGlobal selected Dow’s EO/EG technology and catalyst for its first U.S. MEG facility,” said Faye Miller, Dow global commercial director, Licensing & Catalysts. “This is state-of-the-art technology for a world-class facility, and we expect MEGlobal to reap the many rewards that come from Dow’s catalyst technology and the unique process simplicity that is the hallmark of the METEOR process.” Dow’s METEOR™ Technology is the industry leading, low capital technology for world-scale EO/EG manufacturing facilities. It combines a high activity and high selectivity catalyst with a streamlined process design that results in lower capital and energy cost, high raw material efficiency, excellent operational reliability, and inherent safety and environmental features.
To date, Dow has licensed METEOR™ Technology for plants around the world with capacities to produce approximately 4.5 mln metric tpa of ethylene oxide equivalents. Plans to construct the new 700 kta MEG production facility werre previously announced in March 2016. The unit is expected to come online in mid-2019. It will be adjacent to Dow’s Oyster Creek site in Freeport, Texas.