Topics and Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

  • Next Meeting: Feb. 25, 2025 - Workforce Development II: Tour of PISD's Kirk Lewis Career and Technical High School
  • The typical PCAC meeting agenda includes updates from plants on environmental and safety performance and business information. The main topic may be a presentation, an annual report, or a tour. Time is always allotted for Q&A and discussion. Plans for the next few meetings are reviewed and confirmed. Contact us at [email protected] if you would like an invitation to join us.

Spotlight on...

BASF Pasadena

Picture shows the BASF Pasadena plant and what it makes

BASF Pasadena, in Pasadena, TX, operates two major units: the Plasticizer Unit and the Alcohol Unit. The Plasticizer unit produces DOTP (dioctyl terephthalate) with a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year. DOTP is primarily used to enhance the flexibility of rigid PVC in applications such as flooring, coated fabrics, and wire and cable coatings. DOTP is also used in the medical field, where it makes materials flexible for various uses like hoses, medical tubing, and other devices. The Alcohol Unit produces 2-ethylhexanol (2-EH) with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year. This alcohol is a key raw material for DOTP production and is essential for BASF's other operations, such as producing 2-ethylhexyl acrylate at their Freeport, TX, facility. The Pasadena facility employs about 100 staff across a range of functions, including production, logistics, and other support roles.

Meeting Summaries
Of Special Interest Over the Years
  • January 25, 2022--Plant Communication with the Community When Planning a Maintenance Turnaround. Summary.
  • December 2, 2021-- Effects of Pollution on Health. Summary  Slides
  • March 25, 2021-- Harris County's New Community Air Monitoring Program. Summary
  • January 26, 2021-- Pasadena Citizens’ Advisory Council’s 30th Anniversary.  Summary.  Slides.
  • September 22, 2020-- Recent and Upcoming Technology to Improve the Safety of Truck Transportation of Plant Raw Materials and Products. Summary  Speaker's Slides.  Hydroblasting Safety Initiative
  • April 28, 2020-- Chemical Industry Hurricane Preparedness.  Summary.  Speaker Slides
  • January 28, 2020-- Industry Impacts on the Community: Jobs, Community Relations Programs, and Taxes. Summary
  • December 5, 2019 -- Center for Petrochemical, Energy and Technology Tour. Summary
  • March 5, 2019 -- Joint CAC Meeting: Consequences of Regulatory Changes on the Economy and the Environment. Summary. Speaker Slides: Honeycutt, Craft, Beskid.
  • April 25, 2018 – Joint Meeting with Bay Area Community Advisory Panel to hear Dr. Sam Mannan on Ranking of Chemical Facilities Based on Potential to Cause Harm to the Public. Summary.
Safety Moments

At each meeting, plants report workplace-related worker injuries and illnesses recorded as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Occasionally, PCAC schedules plants to talk about their safety programs. Since 2010, the group has incorporated a Safety Moment into each meeting. Presented by a PCAC plant, the moment may be about safety specific to that plant or about preventing the kind of accidents common in everyday life.

Safety Tips

  • Credit card fraud is on the rise due to quickly evolving technology used to steal credit card information. The technological devices, which are becoming increasingly more available, are used to make ‘white plastic’ that appears to be a real credit card, but is just plastic used by scammers to hold stolen credit card information.

    Safety Moment: Fraud Protection

How We Select Meeting Topics

Every year or so, PCAC develops a Program Plan to assure it is addressing issues of greatest interest to community members.  Community members, plant members, and guests brainstorm topics they believe PCAC should address.  Using sticky dots, they choose those they most want to cover in the coming year.  By using different colors for community and plant members, PCAC is able to schedule the topics of most community interest. Members may also see whether there are differences in what community and plant members want to discuss.  The Program Plan is flexible and may be changed by group agreement.   Contact us at [email protected] if there are issues you would like PCAC to address

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