Dow Highlights UNIPOLTM PP Process Technology

Dow Technology Licensing, a business group of The Dow Chemical
Company and its consolidated affiliates (Dow), recently
announced that its world-leading UNIPOL(TM) PP Process
Technology has been selected for a new 200 KTA polypropylene (PP)
facility to be constructed at the PetroChina Guangxi
Petrochemical Company complex in Guangxi Province.
    The PetroChina Guangxi plant will be the second in China to
utilize the UNIPOL PP Process Technology. Consistent with its
drive to provide licensees with comprehensive and top quality
services to aid in project execution, Dow is collaborating on
this project with Aker Kvaerner, a leading global provider of
engineering and construction services that has designed and/or
built numerous UNIPOL PP lines around the world. Aker Kvaerner
will provide the basic engineering design and certain offshore
equipment for the new plant, which is expected to come on line
in 2008. The process design package provided by Dow has been
delivered, and Aker Kvaerner is in the final stages of delivering
the basic engineering design.