Dow and DPT License LP Oxosm Technology to Tianjin Soda Plant

Dow Technology Licensing, a business unit of the Dow Chemical
Company and its consolidated affiliates (Dow), and Davy Process
Technology Limited (DPT), a Johnson Matthey company, recently
announced that Tianjin Soda Plant (Tianjin Soda) of Tianjin
Bohai Chemical Industry Company Ltd. has selected LP OxoSM
SELECTORSM 10 Technology for its new facility in the Lingang
Industrial Area, Tianjin. The LP Oxo Technology is cooperatively
offered by DPT and Dow Technology Licensing.  
   The new global scale LP Oxo plant, which will be the largest
LP OxoSM alcohols plant in China, is slated to produce 250 KTA
of 2-ethylhexanol (2EH) and butanols. Design and engineering is
scheduled to begin in March 2007 and start-up is expected to
occur in June of 2009. The new LP Oxo facility is part of Tianjin
Soda’s strategic plans to relocate to the new Lingang Industrial
Area from its existing site in the Tanggu District of Tianjin,
and expand its production capabilities to manufacture
petrochemical products. 2EH and butanols are used as
plasticizers for PVC, and as solvents for coatings and adhesives,
respectively. Demand for these products is expected to increase
by seven percent over the next several years.
   It is released by the president of DPT that the company
licensed the oxo alcohol technology in China first in 1978, and
Tianjin Soda will be the fourth Chinese company to operate this
technology, as well as the twenty-second licensee worldwide.