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France’s Arkema Opens Texas Acrylic Plant

by Marc S. Reisch
August 4, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 31

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Credit: Arkema
Arkema’s site in Clear Lake, Texas.
Photo of Arkema’s site in Clear Lake, Texas.
Credit: Arkema
Arkema’s site in Clear Lake, Texas.

Arkema has opened a new plant at its Clear Lake site in Pasadena, Texas, to produce methyl acrylate, which is used to make engineering and water treatment polymers. The plant, with a capacity of 45,000 metric tons per year, marks the last phase of a $110 million investment by the French firm in Clear Lake and Bayport, Texas, that included the addition of 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate and acrylic acid capacity over the past two years.

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