Dow Chemical's proposed on-purpose propylene plant will be located at its sprawling complex in Freeport, Texas, as per Platts. The updated plans call for the construction of a world-scale on-purpose production facility in Freeport by 2015 and the exploration of options to commercialize technology to produce propylene from propane, with the startup of a second unit by 2018. Together, the plants would expand the company's propylene capacity by 900,000 tons. These investments will reduce net purchases of propylene to less than 10% of total use in the United States.
Dow also plans to restart an idled cracker at its St. Charles complex in Hahnville, Louisiana, by the end of 2012, improve/increase feedstock flexibility for crackers at its Plaquemine (Louisiana) and Freeport operations by no later than 2014, and construct a world-scale ethylene production plant in the US Gulf Coast by 2017. With this, Dow will increase ethylene capabilities by as much as 20% in the United States over the next two to three years, and allow Dow to deliver as much as 90% of its North American ethylene from ethane.
02-May-11 
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