The company would also require investment in new storage capacity for ethanol and ETBE. But Arco Chimie notes there is insufficient bioethanol feedstock availability to convert all production to ETBE. There has been talk of Arco modifying its Fos MTBE plant to make it flexible for ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) output the parent company already operates an MTBE/ETBE pilot unit at Corpus Christi, TX. The F2.5 billion ($466 million)-Fe billion/year operation manufactures 200,000 m.t./year of PO, about 70% for captive use and the balance for the merchant market 550,000 m.t./year of methyl tert butyl ether (MTBE) 97,000 m.t./year of polyols and 70,000 m.t./year of propylene glycols. Arco Chimie France (Fos-sur-Mer), at a recent meeting at its southern France manufacturing site, emphasized that future strategy is strongly focused on its propylene oxide (PO) and derivatives activities.
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