Volunteers help Pasadena with 3 projects

PASADENA (April 19, 2010) – Hundreds of LyondellBasell employees and family members will swarm over Pasadena this Saturday, April 24, working on three volunteer projects to help Pasadena residents, part of the company’s worldwide day of community service. LyondellBasell’s 11th annual Global Care Day will feature employee volunteers at facilities circling the globe who will take on projects in their communities in order to make those neighborhoods better places to live and work. This year, 65 communities in 20 countries where the company operates will benefit from Global Care Day.

LyondellBasell’s Pasadena facilities, including the Houston Refinery, Bayport Polymers Plant and the Bayport Underwood Plant, will make a difference for a homeless shelter, a senior citizen on a limited income whose house badly needs repairs and a treasured nature center. There are 17 projects total in the greater Houston area. “Global Care Day is a significant event where our employees and families have an opportunity to work with community neighbors to demonstrate that, through collaboration and partnerships, we can re-invest in our communities,” said Kevin Brown, senior vice president for LyondellBasell. “We have worked hard to earn good relationships with our neighbors in Pasadena, and these joint projects solidify all of our efforts to make our community a better place for to live and work.”

LyondellBasell’s Houston Refinery will work on a variety of home repairs and outdoor landscaping projects needed at Sarah’s House Mission, an emergency shelter that provides housing, meals, clothing and other basic necessities to homeless women and children. Bayport Polymers Plant volunteers will work with Rebuilding Together to repair the home of an 80-year-old retiree on a limited income who lost his wife of 55 years last October. The couple spent 50 of those years in their Pasadena home, which badly needs repairs that its owner is unable to make. Rebuilding Together is a nonprofit organization that provides critical repairs for elderly homeowners who are unable to afford the costs. It works with volunteers and companies such as LyondellBasell to make those dreams possible.

Bayport Underwood Plant employees will help Armand Bayou Nature Center with its main entrance by the Visitors’ Center by removing debris, cutting back overgrown vines and bushes, trimming trees, weeding, landscaping, removing debris and repairing a fence. LyondellBasell has been a supporter and partner with the nature center for decades, and the center’s LyondellBasell Living Lab is one of many gifts to the center from LyondellBasell. All the projects will receive company funding to help make the work possible. Guy Tremblay, site manager of the Bayport Polymers and Bayport Underwood plants, added that while the company continues to manage costs, the best contribution to the community is ‘sweat equity.’ “We can provide the physical labor on projects that are most needed, and we can help organizations and communities that are struggling in today’s challenging economic times,” Tremblay said.

The Houston Refinery’s employees will take on two additional projects: the baseball fields in Galena Park and a city park in the Oak Meadows neighborhood of East Houston. Seventeen Global Care Day projects in the greater Houston area will include work at San Jacinto Battleground & Battleship Texas Park, Bayshore Elementary in La Porte, North Pointe Elementary School in Houston’s Clear Lake Area, a Pasadena homeless shelter, Rebuilding Together projects (repairing homes of elderly residents) in Pasadena, Cloverleaf and Highlands, Armand Bayou Nature Center in Pasadena, baseball fields in Galena Park; an east Houston city park in the Oak Meadows neighborhood, Sheldon Elementary, Crenshaw Elementary in Channelview, Hermann Park in Houston and landscaping the new Liverpool City Hall. April 24 has been declared LyondellBasell Day in the city of Shoreacres.

Global Care Day began in 2000 as a way to reach out to local communities where the company operates. Global Care Day challenges employees worldwide to participate in community service above and beyond ongoing community involvement activities with a special project on the same day. Each participating site selects a project that meets the following criteria: It addresses a community need, it is aligned with one of the company’s community-relations focus-areas of education, environmental quality or community sustainability and the result will be a visible improvement because of employee involvement. More information can be found at: http://www.lyondellbasell.com/globalcareday or find us on Facebook. Search for LyondellBasell Global Care Day.