DowDuPont announced today a plan to make a series of investments totaling approximately $100 million over the next two years to expand manufacturing capacity and modernize facilities at the Sabine River Works (SRW) plant in Orange County, Texas. The investments will incrementally expand production capacity to support global growth of specialty materials manufactured at the site, specifically the Surlyn®, Nucrel®, Fusabond® and Vamac® product lines. Additionally, the Company is evaluating longer term plans to invest in a new facility to further support market growth.
The joint investment will support customer growth of both the Packaging & Specialty Plastics (P&SP) business of DowDuPont’s Materials Science division (to be named Dow), as well as the Transportation & Advanced Polymers (T&AP) business of its Specialty Products division (to be named DuPont).
“This is another great example of the power of our historic merger and our ability to quickly respond to customers’ growing needs,” said Diego Donoso, Business President for Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics, “We see tremendous potential to deliver more supply of these iconic specialty products to our customers in the food packaging and consumer goods markets.”
The added capacity is expected to come online in several phases starting in 2020 and will enable both divisions to meet growing demand for Surlyn®, Nucrel®, Fusabond® (P&SP) and Vamac® (T&AP) specialty products used for applications in food packaging, transportation, and consumer goods.
“With this increased capacity, we will be able to support growth in the automotive space at a time when customer demand for our advanced polymers is very strong,” said Randy Stone, Business President for DuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers, “This investment will enable us to continue to deliver innovative solutions that serve high-growth end markets and reinforces our commitment to enhancing our leadership position in these key market segments.”
Any idea of the number of jobs this might bring to Orange?
Hurrah!! Great to see the growth at SRW. I spent 23 years there and am happy that the plastics business is expanding. More jobs????
It’s great to see .. So Dupont do you plan on at least giving locally owned businesses a fighting chance to see if they can bid for your business, instead of going to big CORPORATE accounts and just bypassing us small business owners.
Just saying. I’ll belebel it when I see it.
Mark, my name is Chad Havens and I’m happy to say that DuPont/Dow is using some local labor. I’m the owner of Bridgefield Electric and co-Owner of Precision Hydrovac. DuPont/Dow recently reached out to both companies, have awarded both companies varying amounts of work, and have held up their end of the payment processes as agreed. Obviously, it’s a lengthy process of approval, but we’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with the DuPont/Dow team to this point and they’ve been very helpful in transitioning us into their facility without disruption. We certainly look forward to a continued future with the facility.
That’s great Chad. We already sell a few store items to Dupont, but getting a foot in as a local business has been very tough and big corporate contracts just crush the competition on a local level. I hope they make sure and remember the guys that get them out of a bind when the emergencies happen. Glad for congratulations on your contracts. That’s one for the local guys !
DuPont , please give small business’s in Orange a chance. Support your community.
I feel lied to. During the process to try to get a “Hospital District” the voters were told that unless we had a local hospital, the local plants would not invest in their plants.
i for one am very grateful for Duponts investment in our community. With continued growth , higher employment, giving small fabrication shops an opportunity maybe one day we will have a hospital in our community. I thank DuPont for not giving up on us.