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SCG-Dow Group breaks ground on Propylene oxide plant

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By: KERRY PIANOFORTE

Editor, Coatings World

SCG-Dow Group breaks ground on Propylene oxide plant
The SCG-Dow Group, a joint venture between Dow and The Siam Cement Group (SCG), has broken ground on a propylene oxide (PO) facility in Thailand. The world-scale plant, located within the Asia Industrial Estates site near Map Ta Phut, will have capacity of 390 kilotons per year of propylene oxide via the hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) technology jointly developed by Dow and BASF. The PO plant, which will also include propylene glycol manufacturing, is expected to come online in 2011.

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