- Georgia Gulf now owns the PPG chemical plant at Natrium, WV
November 8, 2012… [Source: ICIS.com]… See here.
HOUSTON (ICIS)–US-based vinyls producer Georgia Gulf joined a number of other US petrochemical companies that are either considering new crackers or proceeding with construction plans.
Georgia Gulf said it is considering investing in a joint partnership on a condo cracker to secure a cost-effective way to get more ethylene feedstock. CEO Paul Carrico said the company has long sought to be able to secure cost-effective ethylene. “Our mission is to get about 50% of our volume requirements under a cost-base type of situation,” he said.
Carrico said Georgia Gulf has been thinking about such an arrangement as other US-based petrochemical producers have announced new ethane cracker projects. The US shale boom has caused many producers to look at ethane as the cheaper alternative to cracking naphtha.
Chevron Phillips Chemical will build a cracker in Cedar Bayou, Texas, while Dow Chemical will build one in Freeport, Texas.
Shell is evaluating a site in Monaca, Pennsylvania.
ExxonMobil said it will make a final decision on a US cracker project in the second quarter of 2013.
Formosa Plastics also said it plans to build an 800,000 tonne/year cracker in Point Comfort, Texas.
In March, Aither Chemicals and Renewable Manufacturing Gateway (RMG) said they were identifying potential sites in the Appalachia region for a catalytic cracker plant.
LyondellBasell said in April that it has started discussions with potential partners for a condo cracker, potentially at its Channelview complex in Texas.
In August, Mexico-based Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) and Mexichem signed a memorandum to evaluate a joint venture to build an ethane cracker. If feasible, the 500,000 tonne/year facility could begin operations in 2016.
Other companies have said they are considering investing in US cracker projects, including Saudi Arabia’s SABIC and Thailand’s Indorama.
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Appalachian Resins, a start-up company, is also moving forward with a fully integrated ethylene/polyethylene production facility. The less than “world scale” ethylene facility will have a name plate capacity of 500 million pounds. The facility will consume 14 MBD of ethane obtained from Marcellus Shale Gas. The ethylene plant will employ traditional technology, and will support a polyethylene plant that will produce a variety of PE grades suitable for the Northeast PE market.
James Cutler
CEO Appalachian Resins
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2/21/13
Dear Jim,
I am President of ChemTech Consultants. We are a process / project engineering firm in the chemicals business.
I’d like to contact you relative to your plans for a Ethylene Plant in the WVa / PA area.
Could you please forward to me your email and phone number.
Regards,
Tony Foster, P.E., President
ChemTech Consultants, Inc.
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I understand that you have a new facility that is being built in WV and I would like to speak with you about this opportunity.
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Best Regards,
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Director, Sales and Marketing
Vector Technology Group
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email: duane.hampton@vectortg.com
Dear Sirs.:
We would highly appreciate it if you could send me the e-mail and phone number of James Cutler, CEO Appalachian Resins, Inc., in order to convey to him my present professional background for potential hiring at the new grassroots units in Ohio for the Ethane to Ethylene / polyethylene Project.
Best regards,
My phone number is: 0058 412 799 3505
Gentlemen,
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