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Breaking News: Cracker Plant for West Virginia
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – News organizations in West Virginia are reporting that the state’s governor, Earl Ray Tomblin, will announce at 2 p.m. today that a Brazilian company plans to build an ethylene cracker plant in Wood County, W. Val.
The news was first reported by the Parkersburg News and Sentinel (READ STORY). The announcement will be made by Tomblin at the the Parkersburg campus of West Virginia University.
The company has been identified as the “Braskem subsidiary of Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht,” reports the Charleston Daily Mail, which intends to buy land at an industrial site formerly operated by General Electric.
States the Daily Mail, “One key advantage to the Wood County site, as opposed to Shell's Pennsylvania facility, is the area's availability of existing plastics plants, including DuPont's Washington Works site and the host of companies in the Polymer Alliance Zone.”
Shell has an option on land in Beaver County, Pa., where it continues to consider construction of a cracker plant there.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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