Corporate News Releases

 
Chevron Phillips Chemical Executive Says Innovation is Key to Europe’s Ability to Compete Development of energy sources around the world drives the availability of petrochemical feedstocks, and for most of the past two decades, much of that development has been in the Middle East leading to a surge in petrochemical production in that region.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces Expansion of Ethylene Production by 200 Million Pounds per Year at its Sweeny Complex in Old Ocean, Texas Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) announced it will expand its ethylene production by 200 million pounds by adding a tenth furnace to ethylene unit 33 at its Sweeny complex in Old Ocean, Texas.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Names 2013 Dependent Scholarship Recipients Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) announced it has awarded its 2013 Chevron Phillips Chemical Dependents’ Scholarships to 30 outstanding students.
Petrochemical Conversion Company Announces Successful Delivery of Four Process Modules for its World-Scale Nylon Plant in Al-Jubail Petrochemical Conversion Company Ltd. (PCC) announced the successful transport of four process modules to the Port of Jubail in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the company’s new world-scale nylon 6,6 plant in Al-Jubail.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Studying NAO Expansion at Cedar Bayou Plant Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP announced it is studying the possibility of expanding its normal alpha olefins (NAO) capacity – targeting at least a 20 percent increase in a phased approach – at its Cedar Bayou Chemical Complex in Baytown, Texas.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Establishes $75,000 Scholarship Program at Lee College Chevron Phillips Chemical Company announced it will present Lee College with a gift of $75,000 to assist with workforce development needs anticipated to occur in the U.S. Gulf Coast region over the next five years.
Saudi Polymers Company Manufacturing Facility Begins Commercial Production, Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC congratulates Saudi Polymers Company and its joint venture partner, National Petrochemical Company, as the joint venture’s manufacturing facility located in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, begins commercial production.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Donates 300 Reference and Technical Books to Friends of the Library-Kingwood Kingwood Research and Technology Center recently donated more than 300 surplus technical books and periodicals to the Friends of the Library-Kingwood (FOLK) to sell in their used bookstore.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Selects Old Ocean, Texas as Location of New Polyethylene Facilities and Executes FEED Contracts for Cracker and Derivatives Chevron Phillips Chemical announced today the two polyethylene facilities planned as part of the company’s U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) Petrochemicals Project, would be located on a site nearby the Chevron Phillips Chemical Sweeny facility in Old Ocean, Texas.
Chevron Phillips Chemical To Build World’s Largest On-Purpose 1-Hexene Plant Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP will build the world’s largest on-purpose 1-hexene plant capable of producing up to 250,000 metric tons (551,000,000 lbs) per year at its Cedar Bayou Chemical Complex in Baytown, Texas.
Chevron Phillips Chemical To Expand the NGL Fractionation Unit at the Sweeny Plant in Old Ocean, Texas Chevron Phillips Chemical will expand the Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Fractionator Complex at its Sweeny Plant in Old Ocean, Texas
Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces New CFO Chevron Phillips Chemical is pleased to announce that effective March 1, 2012, Tim D. Leveille has been appointed senior vice president, chief financial officer and controller.
 

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Chevron Phillips Chemical Donates Resin for 30,000 Children’s Toys Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP today announced a donation of 12,000 pounds of polyethylene resin to the Detroit Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) to make toys for more than 30,000 needy children in the state of Michigan.
Performance Pipe Completes Modernization Investment: Prepares for new capital projects beginning 2013 Performance Pipe, the largest polyethylene (PE) pressure pipe manufacturer in North America, has recently invested more than $30 million in major capital improvements across the U.S.
Ryton® PPS Celebrates 40 Years Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP is pleased to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ryton® PPS by announcing improved production from the company’s newest PPS plant located in Borger, Texas.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces New Synfluid® mPAOs Chevron Phillips Chemical will begin producing Synfluid® 40 cSt and 100 cSt high viscosity metallocene polyalphaolefins (mPAOs).
Chevron Phillips Chemical Puts the “Plus” in Normal Alpha Olefins Chevron Phillips Chemical will begin marketing its normal alpha olefins line of products under the trademark AlphaPlus® NAO.
Performance Pipe Introduces Autocoiled Packaging for Natural Gas Tubing Performance Pipe is now offering its ½”, ¾” and 1” coils of natural gas tubing in stretch-wrapped autocoils. Historically this tubing has been banded. Watch Video
Phillips Sumika Selected as Supplier of the Year Phillips Sumika Polypropylene Company has been named Quality Supplier of the Year for 2009 by Rexam, the world’s second largest consumer packaging company.
K-Resin SBC KR05 Makes a Clear Difference in Food Packaging at InnoWare As a leading manufacturer of distinctive, high quality foodservice containers and paper tableware items, InnoWare, Inc. takes pride in producing top notch products that meet their customers' needs.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Debuts New PPS Grades Featuring Low Chlorine Content for Electronic/Electrical Applications With low halogen content standards becoming commonplace in the electronics industry, Chevron Phillips Chemical is introducing several new Ryton® polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin grades with chlorine content of less than 900 parts per million.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Introduces New Fiber Resins With three new fiber resins, Chevron Phillips Chemical is providing quality products to monofilament, multifilament, and staple fiber producers.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Offers a PPS Resin for Nearly Every Application With the completion of a new 10,000 metric ton per year PPS plant in Borger, Texas, Chevron Phillips Chemical offers the widest array of PPS polymer types and the world’s largest PPS capacity available in the plastics industry.
K-Resin® SBC KR52 Accomplishes More with Less With more shelf impact, more application benefits, and less hassle, K-Resin® SBC KR52 provides multiple benefits in yield, printability, and blend capability over other shrink film materials.
 

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