Dow Chemical’s new facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, has completed trial operations and started production of commercial-grade glycol ethers. The facility has an annual capacity of 120,000 tonnes and its output will be used by electronics manufacturers in China, Korea and Japan, as well as in the formulation of paints and coatings and cleaning products.

Zhangjiagang, a Yangtze port city located some 200km upstream of Shanghai, is a strategic site for Dow. The company has three other major facilities there: a converted epoxy resin plant, a styrene butadiene latex facility and a joint venture polystyrene resin plant.