Butadiene
Capacity
Now 200,000
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Here you see America's largest non-captive butadiene p l a n t which can now produce 200;000 tons per year t o meet the growing needs of t h e rubber, fiber and chemical industries. Addition of new b u t a n e dehydrogenation units (top center of photo) and related e q u i p m e n t has materially increased both the capacity a n d flexibility of our Houston plant. A new fleet of tank cars a n d a modern Research Laboratory and Pilot Plant have also been added to our facilities.
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Now Petro-Tex is i n a b e t t e r position than ever before to work with producers of end-products a n d intermediates in the plastics, fibers, coatings, films, adhesives, lattices and elastomers fields. W e welcome discussion of your needs for butane-derived hydrocarbons.
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