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Alberta Will Get Polypropylene Plant

by Alexander H. Tullo
November 9, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 44

Williams Cos. is moving forward with plans to build a propane dehydrogenation plant near Edmonton, Alberta. The plant will have 525,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene capacity when it comes onstream in 2019. Its main customer will be North American Polypropylene, a new affiliate of Goradia Capital that intends to build a polypropylene plant on the same site. The new firm has pledged to purchase 450,000 metric tons of propylene per year. Goradia runs a polypropylene plant in Saudi Arabia and owns the synthetic rubber maker Lion Copolymer.

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