LyondellBasell Industries (LBI) is on track to open a major new plant making high-density polyethylene resin (HDPE).
Houston-based LBI will open the new plant sometime in 2019 in LaPorte, Texas as reported by Plastics News who interviewed Executive Paul Augustowski. He serves as the Senior Vice President of Americas olefins and polyoelfins for the firm.
The new HDPE plant will have 1.1 billion pounds of annual production capacity and will be the first world-scale plant to use the firm’s proprietary Hyperzone-brand technology.
HDPE made via Hyperzone has “a good balance of properties,” including toughness and chemical resistance, which can benefit large-part and small-part blow molding, film extrusion, injection molding and pipe production, Augustowski said.
Massive amounts of new PE capacity being added in North America — by LBI and other producers who are making use of shale-based feedstocks.
Pictured: Mr. Paul Augustowski, Senior Vice President of Americas Olefins and Polyoelfins
Image courtesy of LyondellBasell Industries