LyondellBasell boosts US ethylene, PE expansion plans

摘要

LyondellBasell Industries announced plans last week to add 800 million lbs/year of ethylene capacity at its Corpus Christi, TX, site by late 2015 as part or a capital spending ramp-up that will increase its annual ethylene capacity by nearly 2 billion lbs over the next 3 years. The company also announced plans to add as much as 1.2 billion lbs/year of polyethylene (PE) in the United States by 2016 at an analyst meeting in New York last week.