Chemical Processing
Shell Polymers Revives with Massive Pennsylvania Project
Industrial Info has tracked the Monaca Ethylene Franklin Plant project in Pennsylvania since 2011.
Released Thursday, May 17, 2018
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS.A) (The Hague, Netherlands) will revive the name "Shell Polymers" as it returns to the plastics industry with the construction of the Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, which will produce 1.6 million tons of polyethylene annually when operational. It will be the first petrochemical plant built outside of the Gulf of Mexico coastal regions of Texas and Louisiana in decades. Industrial Info has tracked the Monaca Ethylene Franklin Plant project since 2011.
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