Paced by Carbide & Carbon’s plants at Institute, W. Va. and Louisville, Ky., butadiene from alcohol is now actually furnishing 75% of all butadiene. Built last year to produce only 220,000 tons ...

Bridgestone's goal for the plant is to develop a new approach for using ethanol to create a rubber — or polymer — ingredient called butadiene, said Dr. Mark Smale, Bridgestone's executive ...

Synthetic organic chemical manufacturing plants will have two years to begin ... as well as benzene, 1,3-butadiene, ethylene ...