USA: Groundbreaking Ceremony Cabot Starts Construction of Fumed Silica Plant

Announced in May 2017, the new manufacturing facility is scheduled to be operational by 2020, and will extend Cabot’s long-term relationship with Dow while furthering the company’s position as producer of fumed silica.

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Carrollton/USA — Representatives of Cabot Corporation and of Dowdupont joined more than 150 local officials, business leaders and community members to celebrate the groundbreaking of the world-class, fumed silica plant located adjacent to Dow’s Carrollton site in western Kentucky. The groundbreaking coincides with the 50^th anniversary of the Dow site in Carrollton and celebrates the Company’s history of innovation through silicones chemistry.

The collocation enables a fence-line relationship with Dow, creating a closed-loop system that reduces transportation risks, increases manufacturing efficiencies and reduces waste, the manufacturer announced.

USA: Fumed Silica

Cabot Plans to Build Fumed Silica Plant in the US

Both companies have developed a cooperative relationship as both supplier and customer to each other over the last 30 years, with current neighboring operations in Midland, Michigan, USA and Barry, Wales, United Kingdom. Silicone products made at the Dow site are used by Cabot as a building block for producing fumed silica, an ultra-fine, high-purity particle used as a performance additive in a broad range of applications. Dow, in turn, uses Cabot’s fumed silica in its silicone products as well as by-product from Cabot’s process in its operations.

The facility will provide a long-term supply of high quality fumed silica to Dow for use in applications for fast growing end-markets, including packaging and construction, and will support sustainable growth for Dow, Cabot and for northern Kentucky.

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