The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW – News) (Midland, Michigan), through its Brazilian subsidiary headquartered in Sao Paulo, is planning to implement investments in Brazil that will upgrade an already existing facility and provide the company with its first biopolymersproduction site in Santa Vitoria, Minas Gerais, boosting Dow’s presence in the region.
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Dow and Mitsui announced that they have secured the necessary regulatory approvals for their joint venture to produce bioplastics for packaging from sugar cane-derived ethanol. The companies said the governmental green light meant that operations at the Brazilian plant would likely commence in the second quarter of 2013.
‘World’s largest bioplastics plant’
Mitsui will gain a 50% stake in Dow’s facility in Santa Vitoria, in the Minas Gera region of Brazil. It claims that this facility will be the world’s largest integrated plant to manufacturer bioplastics.
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The Dow Chemical Company and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. announced July 19 the formation of a new joint venture aimed at providing innovative and sustainable product solutions to the global high-performance flexible packaging, hygiene and medical markets.
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