Lyondell Announces Price Increases for Titanium Dioxide Products

02-Jan-2006 - Lyondell Chemical Company increased its prices for all rutile and anatase Tiona(R) titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold to all end-use markets worldwide, effective January 1, 2006, or as contracts allow. Millennium Inorganic Chemicals Inc., a Lyondell company, will increase its TiO2 prices as ...

Lyondell to Increase Propylene Glycol Ether Capacity

27-Sep-2005 - Lyondell Chemical Company will be increasing its annual propylene glycol ether (PGE) capacity by 50,000 metric tons by the beginning of 2007. With this additional PGE capacity, Lyondell will continue to meet the future needs of its global customers, especially those in Asia, where the region is ...

Lyondell to Suspend Production at Lake Charles TDI Plant

22-Sep-2005 - Lyondell Chemical Company announced that it will indefinitely suspend production at its 300-million-pound per year Lake Charles, Louisiana, toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant. "The TDI business in North America has not improved as we hoped it would with the economic recovery. The decision to ...

Lyondell Increases ARCOSOLV® PM Capacity

02-May-2005 - Lyondell Chemical Company has increased ARCOSOLV® PM (propylene glycol methyl ether) capacity to meet increasing global customer demand. Lyondell has upped the production from 95,000 metric tons to 130,000 metric tons at its Botlek plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Lyondell also produces ...

Lyondell Produces Biofuel ETBE in Europe

29-Jul-2004 - Lyondell Chemical Company announced today that it is producing and marketing the automotive fuel component ETBE [ethyl-tertiary butyl ether] out of its plant in Fos-sur-Mer, France. ETBE is derived by reacting bio-ethanol (from biomass) with isobutylene to produce a high-octane gasoline ...

Lyondell and Millennium Announce Agreement to Combine

30-Mar-2004 - Lyondell Chemical Company and Millennium Chemicals Inc. announced that their Boards of Directors have approved, and the companies have executed, a definitive agreement for a stock-for-stock business combination of the companies, expected to be tax-free to the shareholders of Millennium and the ...

Equistar Agrees to Supply Propylene to Sunoco for 15 Years and Sell Bayport Polypropylene Unit in Pasadena, Texas

28-Mar-2003 - Lyondell Chemical Company announced that its joint venture Equistar Chemicals, LP, is entering into a long-term propylene supply arrangement with Sunoco, Inc. and is selling its Bayport polypropylene manufacturing unit in Pasadena, Texas, to Sunoco, subject to certain conditions. The transaction ...

Lyondell Announces Plans to Build One-Step Direct Oxidation Propylene Oxide Pilot Plant

11-Oct-2002 - HOUSTON, Oct. 8 - Lyondell Chemical Company, today announced it is building an integrated pilot plant to further develop its proprietary one-step, direct oxidation PO technology. The pilot plant will be built at Lyondell's Technology Center in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and will be the final ...

Lyondell Announces Plans to Build One-Step Direct Oxidation Propylene Oxide Pilot Plant

10-Oct-2002 - Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE: LYO), the world's leading producer of propylene oxide (PO), today announced it is building an integrated pilot plant to further develop its proprietary one-step, direct oxidation PO technology. The pilot plant will be built at Lyondell's Technology Center in ...

Lyondell Chemical Company Redesigns www.lyondell.com to Better Serve Customer And Investor Needs

Includes On- Line Data Book of Company and Industry Information

03-Jun-2002 - HOUSTON, May 31 - Lyondell Chemical Company, a major global chemical manufacturer, has unveiled a new web site at http://www.lyondell.com that provides more in-depth company and industry information to meet the particular needs of customers and investors, while also providing a satisfying on-line ...