LyondellBasell’s Technology segment licenses industry-leading polyolefins process technologies, provides associated engineering and other services, and develops, manufactures and sells polyolefins catalysts, providing polyolefins manufacturers with the capability to produce polyolefins.
- We are a technology-driven company that invests in research and development to maintain our leadership position, which we believe provides a significant competitive advantage.
- LyondellBasell markets its process technologies and catalysts to external customers and also uses them for its own polyolefin manufacturing operations.
- LyondellBasell’s ability to offer a complete polyethylene and polypropylene technology portfolio enables polyolefins manufacturers to have a single provider for polyolefins processes technologies and catalyst systems.
- We have pursued a strategy of leveraging our leading technology positions and global marketing network to gain access to growing markets and low-cost raw materials and feedstocks through the development of joint ventures.
Process Technology Licensing
LyondellBasell is the leading licensor of polyolefin process technologies. Our polypropylene licensing portfolio includes our Spheripol and the more recently introduced Spherizone process technologies and the Metocene technology. LyondellBasell’s polyethylene licensing process portfolio focuses on the Lupotech T (high pressure tubular process for LDPE production), the Lupotech A (autoclave process mainly for EVA copolymers), Hostalen (slurry process for multimodal HDPE production) and Spherilene (gas phase process for LLDPE to HDPE production) processes, all of which cover a wide range of polyethylene products for the worldwide market. We also license a portfolio of chemical process technologies in the fields of olefin recovery, aromatics extraction and acetyls.
Polyolefins Catalysts
Under the Avant brand, LyondellBasell is a leading manufacturer and supplier of polyolefins catalysts. We produce catalysts at two facilities in Germany, one facility in Italy and one facility in the United States. Our polyolefin catalysts, which are consumed during the polyolefin production process and define the processing and mechanical properties of polyolefins, provide enhanced performance for our process technologies and are being developed to enhance performance when used in third-party process technologies. LyondellBasell also supplies catalysts for producing sophisticated polyethylenes.
R&D
We have four research and development facilities, each with a specific focus. Our facility in Frankfurt, Germany, focuses on polyethylene and metallocene catalysts. Our facility in Ferrara, Italy, focuses on polypropylene, PB-1, PP compounds and Zeigler-Natta catalysts. Our facility in Cinncinnati, Ohio, focuses on polyolefin product and application development in North America. Our center in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, develops chemical catalysts and technologies.
Spherizone, Spheripol, Metocene, Lupotech, Hostalen, Spherilene and Avant are trademarks owned or used by LyondellBasell group companies. Trademarks Spherizone, Lupotech, and Hostalen are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.