SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwired) — 10/02/14 — Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — LyondellBasell Industries (NYSE:LYB) (Rotterdam, South Holland) has brought roughly 850 million pounds per year of additional capacity online in its QE1 unit, located at its site in La Porte, Texas. The company completed work on a debottlenecking and two new furnace additions in June 2014, but delayed bringing the new capacity online until the last week of September.Within the article:
SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwired) — 09/18/14 — Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — U.S. producers need to keep a close eye on escalating project expenditures and delays due to tight labor conditions, a LyondellBasell Industries (NYSE:LYB) (Rotterdam, Netherlands) executive said recently. Industrial Info is tracking 61 LyondellBasell projects, which are valued at $3.3 billion.Within this article: Details on a key unit addition and expansion by LyondellBasell, includin
SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwired) — 09/17/14 — Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — The North American and Canadian market has seen a large number of outages this year. Ethylene plants have experienced 910 days offline from January 1 through September 12. The number is likely to increase as the industry enters the fourth quarter of 2014.Within this article: Details of several planned and unplanned ethylene plant outages, including those by Chevron Phillips Chemical, W