ExxonMobil announces Beaumont PE project

摘要

ExxonMobil announced yesterday that it is building a 650,000- metric tons/year polyethylene (PE) unit at its Beaumont, Texas, facility. Construction has already begun, and startup is sched- uled for 2019, says the company, which did not specify the type of PE that will be produced. The new capacity is in addition to two other 650,000-metric ton/year PE lines being built at ExxonMobil’s Mont Belvieu, Texas, facility. Both are expected to begin production in the second half of 2017.