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20.02.2025 • News

Global Leaders Launch Innovative Circularity Pilot

The Global Impact Coalition (GIC), a CEO-led collaborative platform originally incubated at the World Economic Forum, launches the world’s first Automotive Plastics Circularity pilot together with seven global leaders in the chemical and recycling industries.

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11.12.2024 • TopicsStrategy

Circular Solutions

The path to a sustainable, net-zero future for the chemical industry is paved with challenges – and also opportunities.

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26.11.2024 • NewsStrategy

Circular Solutions

The path to a sustainable, net-zero future for the chemical industry is paved with challenges – and also opportunities.

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22.08.2024 • News

LyondellBasell to Acquire German Plastic Recycler APK

In a move to grow and upgrade its circular and low carbon solutions business, chemical producer LyondellBasell is to acquire full ownership of plastic recycler APK in Merseburg, Germany. Closing of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.

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21.02.2024 • News

LyondellBasell Buys Mechanical Recycling Assets in California

Olefins and polyolefins giant LyondellBasell (LYB) has acquired mechanical recycling assets containing rigid plastics recycling processing lines in the US from PreZero, a recycling and waste management service provider. The transaction, LYB said, includes the lease of the processing facility in Jurupa Valley, California, with a production capacity of approx. 23 million kg/year for recycled materials.

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18.01.2024 • News

LyondellBasell to Acquire 35% of Saudi Arabia-based Natpet

LyondellBasell (LYB) has agreed to acquire a 35% stake in Saudi Arabia-based National Petrochemical Industrial Company (Natpet) from Alujain for approximately $500 million. Closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory and other customary closing conditions.

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27.10.2023 • News

LyondellBasell Acquires 25% of Joint Venture Cyclyx

LyondellBasell has acquired a 25% stake in Cyclyx International, a joint venture between Agilyx and ExxonMobil formed in December 2020. Cyclyx is working with industry participants to develop innovative recycling solutions for all types of post-use plastics and aims at increasing the recyclability of plastics from 10% to 90%.

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07.09.2023 • News

LyondellBasell Plans Permanent Closure of PP Plant in Italy

LyondellBasell plans to permanently close one of its two polypropylene (PP) plants at Brindisi, Italy, due to increasingly difficult market conditions and a poor outlook. The company has not disclosed which plant is affected, nor has it provided a timeline for the planned closure.

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06.06.2023 • News

LyondellBasell, Technip and CPChem Sign e-Cracking MOU

LyondellBasell, Technip Energies and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to design, build and operate a demonstration unit using Technip’s electric steam cracking furnace technology.

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01.06.2023 • News

LyondellBasell to Delay Refining Exit to 2025

LyondellBasell plans to keep its oil refining business in operation longer than planned. Rather than pull the plug at the end of 2023 as announced earlier, the olefins and polyolefins giant said this week it would delay its exit until the end of the 2025 first quarter.

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03.05.2023 • News

LyondellBasell Takes Veolia’s Recycling JV Stake

LyondellBasell said it plans to acquire Veolia Belgium‘s stake in the joint venture Quality Circular Polymers (QCP), which has recycling facilities in Belgium and the Netherlands. Currently, the Paris-headquartered waste management group supplies soiled plastic waste to the recycling units, a role it will continue on an independent basis.

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22.03.2023 • News

LyondellBasell Signs Long-term Solar Purchase Deals

Chemical producer LyondellBasell has signed five 15-year solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Spanish renewable energy producer Grenergy. The purchases cover the supply of energy from the La Cereal solar farm project in Spain, which is expected to be operational at the end of 2025.

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14.03.2023 • News

LyondellBasell to Acquire Mepol Group

LyondellBasell has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mepol Group, a manufacturer of recycled, high-performing engineering compounds based in Italy and Poland.

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23.12.2022 • News

ExxonMobil Starts up Advanced Recycling Plant

ExxonMobil has started up what it says is one of the largest advanced recycling facilities in North America at its integrated manufacturing complex in Baytown, Texas, where the company uses proprietary Exxtend technology to break down hard-to-recycle plastics and process them into chemical feedstock.

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23.11.2022 • News

LyondellBasell Progresses German Advanced Recycling Plan

LyondellBasell (LYB) said it is moving ahead with engineering for a commercial scale advanced plastics waste recycling plant it intends to build at its Wesseling, Germany, production site together with Germany’s 23 Oaks Investments.

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18.11.2022 • News

LyondellBasell May Add Propylene at Channelview

LyondellBasell is evaluating an expansion of propylene production at its Channelview complex on the US Gulf coast, widening output by 400,000 t/y. A final decision is expected at the end of 2023. The expansion would lift output by more than 35% and create some 10-15 new jobs.

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12.05.2022 • News

LyondellBasell Says It’s Quitting Russia

Olefins and polyolefins giant LyondellBasell (LYB) has become the latest multinational chemical company to announce plans to pull out of Russia partly or altogether. The Rotterdam-registered, Houston-managed company said this week it has decided “to cease operations” at two office locations in in the country. Its offices in Moscow and Togliatti have now begun winding down activities.

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09.05.2022 • News

LyondellBasell Wins China PE Contracts

LyondellBasell has won contracts to provide its Lupotech PE technology to two separate Chinese companies. The value of the contracts was not disclosed.

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22.04.2022 • News

LyondellBasell to Quit Refining by 2023

LyondellBasell (LYB) is finally calling it quits on the refinery business and has announced plans to close its Houston facility “no later than December 31, 2023.” The plant in the Houston Ship Channel has a rated capacity to transform 268,000 barrels per day of crude oil into transportation fuels and other products including lubricants, chemical intermediates and petroleum coke.

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16.12.2021 • News

LyondellBasell Names Peter Vanacker as CEO

Peter Vanacker, currently president and CEO of Finnish refiner Neste, has been tapped to be the new CEO of LyondellBasell (LYB) starting at the latest in June 2022. He will succeed Bhavesh (Bob) Patel, who is leaving the company at the end of 2021 to become chief executive of W. R. Grace from January 2022. Vanacker will also sit on LYB’s board.

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08.11.2021 • News

LyondellBasell Wins China PE/PP Projects

LyondellBasell has won two separate contracts from Chinese companies to license its PE and PP technology. In the first, Lianyungang Petrochemical, owned by Zhejiang Satellite, has chosen the company’s Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) for a second 400,000 t/y HDPE plant to be built at Lianyungang, Jiangsu province.

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20.10.2021 • News

LyondellBasell Units Get US Air Pollution Fines

In a sign that the administration of US president Joe Biden will be tougher on environmental offenses than that of former president Donald Trump, three companies belonging to petrochemicals producer LyondellBasell have received fines for improper operation, maintenance and monitoring of flares that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said used too much steam.

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