Published on August 3, 2018
DowDupont has begun construction to expand its 1.5 million mt/year steam cracker in Freeport, Texas, to push its capacity to the largest in the US. The company official said "We recently began construction on the expansion of our new Texas-9 ethylene facility, which will increase its capacity to 2 million mt,". DowDupont started up the facility nearly a year ago, shortly after Hurricane Harvey's assault on the Texas Coast. The expansion will support Dow's derivatives operations as well as MEGlobal's adjacent 700,000 mt/year monoethylene glycol plant also under construction. Dow's additional 500,000 mt/year in ethylene capacity is slated to come online in late 2019, after MEGlobal's new plant starts up in mid-2019.
