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Braskem Plans Green Propylene

by Michael McCoy
November 1, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 44

The Brazilian petrochemical maker Braskem intends to be the world’s first producer of propylene from renewable raw materials. In September, the company opened a 200,000-metric-ton-per-year ethylene plant that uses ethanol as a raw material. At the K 2010 plastics show in Düsseldorf, Germany, last week the company announced it will build a 30,000-metric-ton propylene plant, also based on ethanol, that will feed a polypropylene plant. The facility will cost $100 million, it said, and open in 2013 at a yet-to-be-disclosed location in Brazil.

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