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BASF Details U.S. Propylene Plans

by Alexander H. Tullo
March 23, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 12

BASF has selected its complex in Freeport, Texas, as the site for a planned methane-to-propylene plant. BASF will license Air Liquide technologies to convert methane into methanol and methanol into propylene. BASF is a large consumer of propylene to make acrylic acid, oxo-alcohols, and propylene oxide and wants to tap into cheap shale gas as a raw material. The facility, which will have 475,000 metric tons of annual capacity, still requires board approval next year. BASF says it will be its largest-ever single-plant investment.

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