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Japan’s Ube studies US plant for battery solvents

by Michael McCoy
July 14, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 25
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Ube may build a plant in Louisiana that would make dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC), electrolyte solvents used in lithium-ion batteries. If the firm goes ahead, the plant will open in 2025 with capacity to make 100,000 metric tons (t) of DMC and 40,000 t of EMC. Ube says the US market is supplied only by its factory in Japan and by Chinese companies. Huntsman makes ethylene carbonate in Conroe, Texas; Sasol and Lotte Chemical are also studying a US battery solvent plant.

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