Wanhua drops application for $1.25 billion complex in St. James
As south Louisiana awaits the start of the next industrial construction boom to lift it out of an economic slowdown, one of the major...
Dow retrofitting Plaquemine cracker to meet propylene demand
Dow plans to retrofit proprietary fluidized catalytic dehydrogenation (FCDh) technology into one of its mixed-feed crackers in Plaquemine to produce on-purpose propylene, allowing it...
Formosa Plastics planning $332M expansion in Baton Rouge
Formosa Plastics Corporation announced today that it’s planning a $332 million expansion of its Baton Rouge PVC production plant.
The project, according to Plant Manager...
Koch Industries secures majority stake in St. James methanol project
A company owned by Koch Industries is now the majority owner and managing member of a $1.85 billion methanol production complex under construction in...
$32B in construction projects are lined up through 2022. Can Louisiana handle it?
A trucker’s daily bumper-to-bumper crawl on I-10 in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge has consequential impacts on commerce, to be sure, but it spotlights...
Shareholder concerns grow over Sasol’s troubled Lake Charles Chemicals Project
Sasol Ltd. has been meeting with shareholders as dissatisfaction grows with cost overruns at the $13 billion Lake Charles chemical project in the U.S.,...
Indorama’s Lake Charles steam cracker startup pushed to 2020
Although Indorama's Lake Charles steam cracker was mechanically complete in May, the plant likely won't fully start up until January 2020.
In its latest quarterly...
28 students complete latest BASF TECH Academy
Twenty-eight area high school students completed BASF’s TECH Academy—a week-long educational and workforce development program hosted at River Parishes Community College in Gonzales.
The program...
Sasol begins startup of Lake Charles cracker
Sasol is initiating the startup of its new 1.5 million tons-per-year cracker in Lake Charles. However, the company's new associated 420,000 million tons per...
New Methanex project makes Geismar one of the largest methanol complexes in the world
Methanex is spending up to $1.4 billion to construct a third methanol facility in Geismar.
The project will create 62 new direct jobs with average...
