A Fluor Corp. joint venture received a $100-million contract from a Dow Chemical Co. venture to design and build a plant in Argentina to produce ethylene and other feedstock chemicals for making plastics.
Irvine-based Fluor, the largest engineering and construction company in the United States, and Buenos Aires-based Perez Compac SA expect to begin construction on the plant in Bahia Blanca in September and complete the $300-million project within two years.
