# Lotte Chemical to start commercial production at Louisiana ethane cracker

Lotte Chemical Corp. will begin full-fledged commercial production at its new ethane cracker and ethylene glycol complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana, next week. The $3.1 billion project has a capacity of 1 million tons of ethylene and 700,000 tons of EG per year.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2019-03-07
- Where: Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
- Value: $3.10B
- Starts operating: 14 Mar 2019
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 1 million tons of ethylene and 700,000 tons of EG per year
- Products: ethylene, ethylene glycol
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Lotte Chemical](https://endata.com/companies/2025.md)

## Sources

- [pulse.mk.co.kr](https://pulse.mk.co.kr/news/english/8717153), 2019-03-07: "Lotte Chemical Corp. next week will start full-fledged commercial production at its new ethane cracker and ethylene glycol production complex in the United States."
- [pulse.mk.co.kr](https://pulse.mk.co.kr/news/all/8717153), 2019-03-07: "Lotte Chemical Corp. next week will start full-fledged commercial production at its new ethane cracker and ethylene glycol production complex in the United States."

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