# Ube plans DMC and EMC plant in Louisiana

Ube is beginning basic design for a plant in Louisiana with capacities of 50,000 tonnes/year of dimethyl carbonate and 40,000 tonnes/year of ethyl methyl carbonate.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2022-09-08
- Where: Louisiana, United States
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 50,000 tonnes/year DMC, 40,000 tonnes/year EMC
- Products: dimethyl carbonate, ethyl methyl carbonate
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [UBE Corporation](https://endata.com/companies/43908.md)

## Sources

- [viewer.joomag.com](https://viewer.joomag.com/speciality-chemicals-magazine-sept-oct-2022/0608782001662132063/p7), 2022-09-08: "Ube revealed that is has been studying the feasibility of commercialising dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and downstream ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) in the US and that it has also decided to build an additional plant for highpurity nitric acid in Japan."

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