ERB Plans $109 Million Brazil Sugar-Cane Biomass Plant With Dow

Bloomberg

By Stephan Nielsen 
Oct 15, 2013 9:54 AM CT

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Dow and Mitsui to start bio-PE production in 2015

agra-net.com
Wednesday March 21 2012

US chemicals major Dow Chemical Co. and Japanese industrial conglomerate Mitsui & Co. expect to finalise negotiations around a 50:50 joint venture (JV) on renewable polyethylene (PE) in Brazil by the end of 2012, said Luis Cirihal, Dow business director for renewable alternatives and business development in Latin America.

The JV was initially announced in mid-August 2011 and under it, Mitsui will hold a 50% equity interest in Dow's operation in Santa Vitoria, Minas Gerais. The project is vertically integrated, initially aiming at ethanol production, then ethanol-to-ethylene and finally ethylene-to-PE production.

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Eucalyptus Utopia

Biomass Power & Thermal
By Lisa Gibson January 25, 2011

Dow will begin to use eucalyptus in Brazil, as the country continues to make meaningful use of the tree in its bioenergy sector.

Dow has signed an 18-year supply agreement with Energias Renovaveis do Brazil, which will invest, install and operate a 13-megawatt plant next to Dow’s Aratu Complex in the Bahia State in northeast Brazil. The plant, which will replace natural gas-fired boilers, will supply 100 percent of steam requirements for the Aratu site’s propylene oxide and propylene glycol operations and 30 percent of the requirements for the chlor-alkali and hydrochloric acid production units.

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Dow to Test Algae Ethanol

TechnologyReview.com (MIT)
By Tyler Hamilton
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Startup Algenol partners with Dow Chemical on a demonstration ethanol plant.

Florida startup Algenol Biofuels says that it can efficiently produce commercial quantities of ethanol directly from algae without the need for fresh water or agricultural lands--a novel approach that has captured the interest and backing of Dow Chemical, the chemical giant based in Midland, MI.

The companies recently announced plans to build and operate a demonstration plant on 24 acres of property at Dow's sprawling Freeport, TX, manufacturing site. The plant will consist of 3,100 horizontal bioreactors, each about 5 feet wide and 50 feet long and capable of holding 4,000 liters.

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