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Plastics News, May, 2007

Dow, Saudi Aramco join to build facility MIDLAND, MICH. - Dow Chemical Co. is linking with Saudi Aramco to build a massive plastics and petrochemicals complex in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. The site will include world-scale production units for polyethylene, polycarbonate, epoxy resins and polyurethane components, as well as feedstocks ethylene and propylene and several other materials, officials said in a May 12 news release.

The complex will be integrated with Saudi Aramco's oil refinery in Ras Tanura and its gas processing plant in Ju'aymah. State-owned Saudi Aramco ranks as the world's largest oil company, based on reserves and production. The firm is based in Dhahran, Saudia Arabia. Midland-based Dow ranks as one of the world's largest plastics and...

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