Report: Echem studying $1.5-billion propylene project in Egypt
5:04 AM MDT | September 3, 2014 | Clay Boswell
Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Co. (Echem) says feasibility studies for a $1.5-billion propylene project at Alexandria, Egypt, and three other chemical projects, will be completed by 2015, according to a report in Daily News Egypt.
The other projects under consideration include two bioethanol units: a $250-million, 100,000-m.t./year plant based on molasses and a $240-million, 100,000-m.t./year plant based on rice hulls. A $50-million, 40,000-m.t./year polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant is also being evaluated, says Daily News Egypt.
