Dow and Mitsui postpone plans for green plastic but still OK for ethanol

January 14, 2013 |

In Brazil, Dow and Mitsui have postponed plans for the ethanol-based plastics production facility they announced in 2007. The $1.5 billion project was meant to break ground in Santa Vitoria, Minas Gerais state this year and with the ethanol plant online before year’s end before bringing on an ethanol-to-ethylene and biopolymers plant. The ethanol part of the project is still on time but the plastics part is on hold.

Category: Fuels

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