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LyondellBasell will Build HDPE Plant at La Porte, TX Complex

Facility will have an annual capacity of 1.1 billion pounds (500,000 metric tons).

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

LyondellBasell has selected its La Porte, Texas, manufacturing complex as the site for a new high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant. The plant will be the first commercial plant to employ LyondellBasell’s new proprietary Hyperzone PE technology and will have an annual capacity of 1.1 billion pounds (500,000 metric tons). The project is expected to create up to 1,000 jobs at the peak of construction and as many as 75 full time positions. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2017 with start...

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