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Market sources repoted that DowDuPont has announced that its new LDPE plant has successfully came online during first quarter of 2018 during a conference call on 3 May 2018.

Based in Plaquemine, Louisiana, United States, the LDPE lant has a production capacity of 350,000 tons/year. The company claimed to have ramped up to full production rates and products have been available in the market.

Meanwhile, the company also announced that its new 200,000 tons/year Nordel metallocene ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) and 320,000 tons/year high melt index specialty and conventional polyolefin elastomers are under well progress. In addition, its 125,000 tons/year bimodal gas phase debottlenecking on the same site are expected to be completed by mid of the year.