Amazing Chemistry Makes Mom’s Day
A mother’s task is never done. From bandaging scraped knees, checking homework, looking for monsters under the bed, and driving to soccer matches and ballet lessons, Moms do it all. On Sunday, May 13, we show our appreciation to Moms through flowers, sweets and various gifts. The amazing chemistry of LyondellBasell makes it easier to honor Moms for all the things they do every day.
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LyondellBasell Shines at ChinaPlas
ChinaPlas opened to a large crowd of over 109,000 participants and 2,700 vendors from all over the world on April 18 to April 21 in Shanghai, China. ChinaPlas is not only the largest plastics and rubber trade fair in Asia, it is also widely recognized by the industry as the third most influential exhibition in the world
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Strengthening Customer Relationships Drives NPE Effort
LyondellBasell’s participation at the 27th International Plastics Showcase, or NPE, was an integral part of the Polyolefin Commercial Team’s effort to strengthen relationships with existing and prospective customers.
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Making Carnival All the More Magical
Whether you call it Mardi Gras, Carnival or Fastelovend – at this time of the year, people gather from New Orleans to Nice, Rio de Janeiro to Cologne, and Venice to Tarragona to party in joyous ways.
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Creating Sweet Science for Valentine’s Day
For millions across the globe, February 14, Valentine’s Day, has become just as synonymous with cards, chocolate and flowers as it is to expressing your love for that special someone.
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Plastindia 2012
For years, LyondellBasell and its products have had an impact on lives across the globe. In 2012, the company will put its products and industry-leading technology on display for Plastindia 2012, one of Asia’s leading tradeshows for the plastics industry.
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Adflex TPOs Transform Residential Roofing
Underneath most shingled roofs built during the past 50 years in North America is asphalt-coated paper, designed to keep moisture at bay. But it presents many challenges: it’s difficult to install, can retain water and tears easily. The last thing homeowners want is a roof with a short life, and producers and installers need products that perform, both during and after installation.
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Flexing Performance Muscle In Flexible Packaging
There’s a new player on the block that packs a punch. It’s Luflexen hyPE 35P FA, a new polyethylene grade with the potential to offer an entirely new level of performance for flexible packaging.
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Plexar Resins Help Keep Holiday Foods Fresh and Safe
They’re the foods we love during the holiday season – turkey, ham, lamb, fish and cheese, to name a few. How do these delicacies stay fresh during transport from food packers to supermarkets and finally to our dining tables?
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Amazing Chemistry Creates Amazingly Clear Packaging!
With Moplen HP2409 polypropylene (PP), what you see is what you get - highly transparent, durable food packaging that provides exceptional consumer shelf appeal while protecting its contents.
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Protecting healthcare workers and patients
Earthquakes, rushing flood waters or other natural disasters can cause great destruction for any community. Most of us rely on first responders and health workers during these extreme emergencies; and they rely on various medical equipment and supplies to help save lives.
LyondellBasell products play a role in the care of patients and the protection of health care workers every day.
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Bringing Easy Back to Seal-peel Packaging
New Family of Toppyl Resins Based on Polybutene-1 Addresses Consumer Needs for Convenience and Functionality
Today’s packaging must be practical, effective, safe and easy to open, without the need for a cutting instrument. That’s why LyondellBasell developed Toppyl compounds based on polybutene-1 (PB-1).
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Cold & Flu - No Match For Chemistry You Can Count On!
With a highly active cold and flu season already under way in the Northern Hemisphere, our chemical and polymer products are helping consumers ease their symptoms. Walk down the aisle of any pharmacy, and there’s likely to be numerous medications and products made possible by LyondellBasell.
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Halloween’s A Spook-tacular Time
Halloween is a fun and festive holiday celebrated in a variety of ways around the globe. Its name is derived from "All Hallows Eve," the night before All Saints Day - when people honor all saints. In most of the Western world, Halloween is observed on or near October 31.
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Purell showcases its service concept in India
LyondellBasell showcases Purell, its leading healthcare program for polyolefins at CPhI India in Mumbai, from November, 30 to December 2, 2011.
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The Amazing Little Plastic Pellet
LyondellBasell has launched two new low density polyethylene (LDPE) resins that offer enhanced performance for a wide range of packaging applications. The new grades are produced using the company’s Lupotech T high pressure tubular process technology.
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Visit LyondellBasell @ Chinaplas 2011
With innovative, industry-leading products and dedication to customers, LyondellBasell is fueling the power to win. As a global player, LyondellBasell is geographically well positioned to meet the growing needs of the Chinese market.
Be part of our success story! Visit us at Chinaplas 2011 in Hall 10.2 Booth J31. See what amazing chemistry can do for you!
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Energy-efficient Hifax resins: Still Cool After All These Years!
Many of the commercial buildings constructed or renovated in the past 15 years feature roofing membranes produced with Hifax thermoplastic polyolefins (TPOs). Hifax TPOs help businesses reduce their energy consumption (cooling costs) – among the many reasons why they’ve become North America’s most popular single-ply roofing material.
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Visit LyondellBasell @ China Roofing & Waterproofing in Beijing
For more than 15 years, Hifax thermoplastic polyolefins (TPOs) have been specified by our customers for waterproofing membranes. Hifax TPOs from LyondellBasell offer numerous benefits for membrane converters, installers and end users:
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Incorporate Your Liquid Additives Safely And Easily
Working with liquid additives or chemicals can present numerous hazards. Minimize these challenges with Hifax CA7153 S from LyondellBasell.
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Amazing Chemistry For Amazing Dads
Whether Dad likes playing sports, tinkering with his new electronic device or dressing up for a nice dinner with the family, the amazing chemistry of LyondellBasell products make his big day the best.
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The Soft Touch Wins Accolades
LyondellBasell’s Softell polypropylene (PP) compound has been chosen by the 2011 German Innovation Award Committee as one of the most innovative products of the year. Used by leading automotive manufacturers for a variety of interior applications, the product was ranked among the top five entries in the committee’s “Corporations” category.
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Visit LyondellBasell @ Plast Pack East Africa 2011
With innovative, industry-leading products and a strong customer focus, LyondellBasell is fueling the power to win. As a global player, LyondellBasell is geographically positioned to meet the growing needs of the African market.
Take advantage of the benefits offered by our new range of polypropylene products available from Al-Waha, one of our joint ventures in Saudi Arabia. At Plast Pack, you’ll find out how these industry-defining products can help you succeed.
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40 Years Of Proven Wire & Cable Performance
It’s simply undeniable. For decades, we have been offering one of the broadest, most widely used portfolios of wire and cable resins and compounds. Customers keep coming back, year after year. Why? Because we offer the performance recognized among the industry’s best. Take a look at our product and service offering. And see for yourself what our Amazing Chemistry can do for you!
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LyondellBasell Finishes First With Automotive Supplier
Leading global automotive interiors producer Benecke-Kaliko has awarded LyondellBasell the Supplier of the Year certificate for 2010. With a strong focus on product quality and supply chain excellence, the company’s polyolefins business in Europe outperformed numerous suppliers to earn this significant achievement.
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Our Chemistry Makes The Grade
It’s that time of the year again. Time to hit the books. But it’s also time to hit the stores and find all of those back-to-school essentials - products made possible by the Amazing Chemistry® of LyondellBasell!
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LyondellBasell at Chinaplas 2010
For the past few years, LyondellBasell has been a regular exhibitor at Chinaplas, Asia’s leading plastics trade fair. It should come as no surprise that LyondellBasell plans to participate in the 2010 trade show. The 24th show will rotate from the Guangzhou location to Shanghai, and will be held at the city’s New International Expo Centre from April 19-22, 2010.
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Caring for our communities
Each year, on one day, thousands of LyondellBasell employees and their family members located around the globe help to make the communities where we operate better places to live and work. Through Global Care Day, our worldwide day of community service, we go above and beyond our ongoing community involvement activities to make a difference in the lives of the people around us.And products made using LyondellBasell chemicals and plastics assist the volunteers in making it all happen efficiently
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High-gloss copolymer delivers
By combining aesthetic performance and very good impact resistance, even at low temperatures, Clyrell EC340Q resin offers numerous benefits for customer applications.
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Moplen Resin replaces steel
Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG, the world's leading producer of cleaning equipment has selected LyondellBasell's high-performance polypropylene (PP) resin Moplen EP240T, for the production of a new series of industrial cleaning equipment. The resin will be used to produce the chassis of the company's new mid-class and high-end range of hot-water high-pressure cleaners.
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Pharma packaging transformed
“With Purell PE 3420F, we are truly expanding the operational envelope of our production facilities, as we are achieving densities not classically associated with low density polyethylene,” said Thomas Maurer, operations manager of LyondellBasell’s Purell resins plant in Wesseling, Germany.
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Strength and speed bolster TWIM
Moplen EP548U is setting new industry performance benchmarks for the production of customer thin-wall injection molding (TWIM) containers, due in part to its very good impact/rigidity balance and easy demolding. The grade meets food contact requirements for Europe and USA.
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Two million tonnes Hostalen ACP
LyondellBasell Industries has achieved another significant milestone in the global market introduction of its Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) technology, with two million tonnes of multimodal high density polyethylene (HDPE) capacity installed and under construction to date.
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Addressing South American demand for coatings
As one of the world’s leading producers of performance chemicals and solvents for paints and coatings, LyondellBasell demonstrated its innovative capabilities at ABRAFATI ― the 11th Conference of the Brazilian Coatings Manufacturers Association ― which was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September.
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Industry-leading Resins Used in Collapsible Tubes
For more than 30 years, LyondellBasell has been producing leading polyolefins to address the needs of the expanding collapsible tubes market. The company’s innovative low and high density polyethylene grades are used by customers to meet the most demanding requirements of collapsible tube production.
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Keeping Olympic sailors cool and comfortable
A pair of Italian manufacturers have teamed up to help boost the fortunes of that country’s sailing contingent at the 2008 regatta in Beijing. Their contribution is the new "Area 51" nautical jersey made by SLAM, a leading supplier of high-tech sailing apparel.
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Softell seems to say it all.
The new polypropylene (PP) compound from LyondellBasell now being manufactured for a variety of large, visible interior applications such as the Opel Astra model's instrument and door panels, adds a softer look to the products. Giving a soft aesthetic look to the interiors of the Opel, the compound lends a unique matt surface property without the need of painting, adding an appreciation of beauty to the properties.
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Collapsible pallet boxes
LyondellBasell’s Moplen EP340M has become one of the first polypropylene products to receive certification from the Association of the German Automotive Industry (VDA) for the production of collapsible pallet boxes used in automotive manufacturing. A heterophasic polypropylene copolymer regularly used by converters of small crates and large collapsible boxes, Moplen EP340M has now met the requirements of the automotive industry; it provides excellent resistance to low and high temp
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LyondellBasell sponsors Dubai Plast Pro
LyondellBasell was a major sponsor of this year’s Dubai Plast Pro Congress, one of the Middle East’s premier plastics conferences. Held April 26-29 in Dubai, the conference was attended by more than 300 industry experts from the world’s leading petrochemical companies, and explored new business potential for the growing region.
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LyondellBasell @ K 2010: Fueling the Power to Win!
From October 27 to November 3, some 3,000 exhibitors will present the latest industry developments at the world’s largest trade fair for plastics and rubber in Düsseldorf, Germany.
At K, more than 200,000 visitors from nearly 60 countries will have the opportunity to discover how LyondellBasell’s winning combination of industry-defining products, dedication to customer service, technical expertise and legacy of manufacturing know-how helps customers succeed.
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PP clear alternative in hot-fill
Blow-molded bottles using a new high-clarity, high-flow PP grade provide a hot-fill alternative to glass and PET for Container Corp. of Canada.
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New HDPE Plant Starts Up in Münchsmünster
To better serve our customers in Europe, LyondellBasell has started up a new Hostalen ACP plant in Münchsmünster, Germany that produces a wide range of HDPE grades selected by customers for caps and closures. With a capacity of 320 KT, this state-of-the-art manufacturing plant uses the company’s breakthrough Hostalen ACP technology. To date, LyondellBasell has more than one million tons per year of Hostalen ACP production capacity through its wholly-owned and joint venture l
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Leadership and service recognized
The successful creation of a strong local team of employees that has adopted a culture of “why not” rather than “can not” has earned PolyPacific Polymers’ General Manager Malcolm Fisher the 2009 Business Person of the Year award from the Malaysian Australian Business Council (MABC).
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Clyrell resin clear favorite for Unilever
A unique combination of stiffness, impact resistance, clarity and flowability made Clyrell PP resin the natural choice for packaging Unilever’s Carte d’Or ice cream brand.
Unilever’s Carte d’Or ice cream brand is packaged in one-litre thin wall injection moulded containers. Clarity is a key characteristic in this packaging, since visibility of the product within the container has proved to be an important selling point with consumers.
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New Lupolen boosts blown film
Flexible packaging producers now have a new way of achieving unprecedented performance in blown film applications. With the introduction of Lupolen GX 4081 medium density polyethylene (MDPE), customers can benefit from a superior balance of mechanical properties, and a unique combination of stiffness and toughness that offer significant downgauging potential – up to double digits – for numerous flexible packaging applications.
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LyondellBasell Rings Opening Bell at NYSE
On May 2, 2011, members of LyondellBasell's leadership team visited the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to celebrate the company’s one-year anniversary since emergence from Chapter 11 protection, and to hold the quarterly earnings call.
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High-performance ATV tackles low temps
Sequel E3000 engineered polyolefin is selected by customers for extrusion into sheetstock to be used in thermoforming applications. The material combines excellent impact resistance with low-temperature ductility and UV resistance, so a cap layer is not required for weatherability. That’s why sheet-extruder Orion Plastics recommended Dumur Industries' switch to Sequel® E3000 engineered polyolefin produced by LyondellBasell Advanced Polyolefins USA Inc.
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Innovative Pipe Products at Chinaplas
Among the innovative new products on display that caught the attention of visitors to the LyondellBasell stand at Chinaplas 2010 was a sample installation of underfloor pipe heating systems produced using Akoafloor PB R 509. The grade is the company's first PB-1 random copolymer used in underfloor heating and surface cooling applications. Customers report that Akoafloor offers improved flexibility and cold impact performance compared to standard PB-1 resins.
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Infiltration System Produced Using Hostalen PP N2122
LyondellBasell's Hostalen PP N2122 resin is the material of choice for the rainwater infiltration pipes being installed at the new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, Europe's largest airport currently under construction. The contract for the airport's rainwater management system was awarded to Wavin, one of Europe's leading plastic pipe producers.
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Strength and savings with Alathon
Alathon L4555X02 is the latest innovation to join the Alathon family of high density polyethylene (HDPE) resins known for their high tensile strength and very low gels. These distinct characteristics make this medium molecular weight HDPE resin potentially suited for high-performance film applications including tubular food and produce wrap, hay bale wrap, industrial tarps, shading nets and protective netting. Alathon L4555X02 is manufactured in Victoria, Texas.
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Going green with leadership in biofuels
As one of the world’s largest producers of polymers, petrochemicals and fuels, LyondellBasell strives to develop products that reduce environmental impact and contribute to a sustainable future. And market demand for these types of products has grown at a rapid pace.
One of the ways the company achieves these goals is through the development of bio-based fuel products, clean-burning fuel components based on renewable raw materials that help to reduce CO2 emissions and utilize alternative ener
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Two Prestigious Awards from Toyota in Europe
LyondellBassell Industries has been honored with two awards given by Toyota Motor Europe. It is the only plastics raw material supplier that has received two coveted awards from Toyota Motor Europe.
The Supplier for Quality Award was given for outstanding achievements in product quality and supply consistency provided to all Toyota manufacturers.
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LyondellBasell establishes global healthcare business
LyondellBasell Industries’ Healthcare Applications business unit is exclusively dedicated to addressing the specialized needs of the healthcare industry. The business unit markets and sells Purell polyethylene and polypropylene resins which are currently produced in Europe and Asia. With the establishment of the production of Purell resins in the United States in 2009, LyondellBasell will become the first polyolefins supplier to establish a truly global healthcare business unit.
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New Range of Hostalen ACP 5331 HDPE Resins
With the launch of the new Hostalen ACP 5331 range of HDPE resins, LyondellBasell continues to expand its portfolio of high-performance resins used by customers in still mineral water and non-carbonated beverage packaging.
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Purell takes off at CPhI India
The latest healthcare product innovation from LyondellBasell, Purell PE 3420F, was all the buzz at the CPhI pharmaceutical product manufacturers’ trade show held from December 1-3 in Mumbai, India. With exceptional customer interest in the product, numerous key contacts with high-profile companies have been established.
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Bringing more egg-citement to Easter
As one of the world’s largest producers of chemicals and polymers, many fun and festive Easter items are made possible because of LyondellBasell products. At LyondellBasell, we can take pride in all that we do to help families around the world have a fun and joyous Easter holiday.
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Going with growth
LyondellBasell believes that success in polyolefins today requires a combination of essential elements -- customer focus, market closeness, cost leadership and innovative technologies. Through a growing presence in the Middle East, the company is meeting the polyolefin requirements of the expanding Asian region by utilizing these key components -- local expertise, marketing know-how, industry-leading manufacturing processes, and cost-advantaged feedstock.
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LyondellBasell at ChinaPlas 2010
Emphasizing its dedication to an important growth region with the theme "Commitment," LyondellBasell showcased its leading product and service offerings at this year’s Chinaplas, Asia’s largest plastics trade fair. The four-day event held in April in Shanghai attracted more than 80,000 visitors from the region as well as from around the globe.
You can find our chemical and polymer products in a variety of pharmaceutical end-uses. From pills and cough medicines to the packaging that protects t
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Enjoy a safe and relaxing summer
For many people in the Northern Hemisphere, this time of year means fun in the sun and vacation getaways. While lots of people will travel to various destinations, many families will opt to save money by creating mini-vacations right in their own backyards. Whatever the method, summertime is even more fun because of innovative products from LyondellBasell.
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Tiguan mounts PP front end
An innovative short-glass, fiber-reinforced polypropylene delivers outstanding mechanical performance in the new Volkswagen SUV.
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Hostalen HDPE Offers Environmental Benefits For Closures
LyondellBasell’s innovative Hostalen ACP grades produced at the Münchsmünster plant provide customers with opportunities to reduce waste, decrease energy usage and make contributions to sustainability
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World’s largest bio-ETBE plant
Among LyondellBasell’s portfolio of products are those that reduce environmental impact and contribute to a sustainable future. Through the development of bio-based fuel products, we’re able to produce clean-burning fuel components based on renewable raw materials that help to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and utilize alternative energy resources.
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Hifax powers flexible pipelines
High-impact strength, improved flexibility and good compression strength are just some of the many attributes offered by LyondellBasell’s new Hifax polypropylene (PP) compound that addresses customer needs in the rapidly-expanding market for flexible pipeline systems used in off-shore, deep-sea oil exploration. Hifax EBS 153D NAT has been developed for use in multi-layer syntactic coating structures for flexible risers and flowlines in semi-flexible pipeline coating applications.
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Innovation for an expanding India
Among the 1,500 exhibitors at this year’s PlastIndia trade show, LyondellBasell had a distinct advantage.
“We received more than 3,000 visitors to our booth,” said Mitchell Killeen, LyondellBasell’s Vice President of PP and PE in Africa, the Middle East and Indian Sub-continent. “With our global leadership in polyolefins production and technology, and our competitive asset footprint including capacity available from the Middle East and Asia, we are strategically positioned to effectively addres
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Hostacom propels Insignia interiors
LyondellBasell products play an integral part in the manufacture of interior components for the Opel Insignia, Europe’s 2009 Car of the Year. Several Hostacom compounded polypropylene (PP) grades are being used to produce the instrument panel, door panel and pillar trim.
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Going global in caps and closures
LyondellBasell’s new Caps and Closures organization can deliver dedicated product as well as commercial and technical support in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and AFMEI.
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Exceptional ESCR for pipe
LyondellBasell’s Hostalen CRP 100 RESIST Black high density polyethylene (HDPE) was used to produce Italian pipe manufacturer Picenum Plast’s new Extreme 100 water pipe application. According to Picenum Plast’s Technical and Process Manager Mario Iaccarino, the new pipe application has benefited from LyondellBasell’s high-performing resins.
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LyondellBasell honored with best practice award
LyondellBasell has received the 2008 Global Plastics in Medical Devices Customer Value Enhancement Award from business research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan for its status as a one-stop-shop for its customers in the global medical devices market.
The Customer Value Enhancement Award is presented to the company that has best demonstrated the ability to expand its customer base with more innovative value creation and enhancement strategies than competing vendors while maintaining its e
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Driving pipe quality in Asia
Experts in Europe and North America have been working together for decades to define industry standards for piping materials, applications, approval systems and strict control mechanisms. This process began only 20 years ago in Asia, where LyondellBasell is at the forefront of promoting modern piping system standards.
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Licensed to sell
With a history of industry "firsts" under its belt - including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 for the development of pioneering polyolefins manufacturing processes - it’s not surprising that the global leader in polyolefins is continuing its tradition of technology excellence by offering an expanded portfolio of chemical technologies.
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A new benchmark in product packaging
A cooperative effort among Procter & Gamble, packaging consultant PTI Europe, and LyondellBasell has resulted in a new family bottles that outperform those made from traditional materials.
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LyondellBasell Top 10 Supplier
LyondellBasell has been named one of Ashland China’s Top 10 suppliers last year in recognition of the company’s outstanding achievements in quality and supply consistency of chemical products in Asia over the past few years.
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Australia's first all-polypropylene bulk bag
LyondellBasell is an active signatory to Australia’s National Packaging Covenant, so the company is committed to finding ways to minimize the impact of packaging on the country’s recycling effort. And where better to start than with LyondellBasell’s own bulk bags.
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World-class Middle East assets
Despite the economic downturn that’s affecting demand in many parts of the world, growth in the petrochemicals sector in Asia and the Middle East is expected to continue. With new polyolefins capacity in the Middle East available through joint venture operations, LyondellBasell is strategically positioned to address the needs of these growing regions.
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