LyondellBasell’s Post

Sustainable marine fuel is now available to boaters at St. Andrews Marina in Panama City, Florida! It’s a major milestone in our collective industry efforts to further reduce carbon emissions. This is a great example of how we can work in partnership with government to bring new technologies to market. Thanks to Suzuki Marine USA, LLC , HYPERFUELS and LyondellBasell for your leadership to make this possible. #propellingourfuture Thanks also to the City of Panama City, FL and all of the local, state, and federal policy makers that attended and supported the event. https://lnkd.in/g9GNK5fj https://lnkd.in/g9UBfxHK

Many thanks to SPE Central Europe e. V. and its president Bernard Rzepka and his passioned team for organizing this amazing event at the Kameha Grand Bonn honoring outstanding innovations with the SPE Automotive Awards. We are very proud that all five submitted material solutions of our LyondellBasell Advanced Polymer Solutions (APS) team with partners along the automotive value chain were honored with the   FIRST PLACE in the category BODY INTERIOR for the instrument panel carrier of the Volkswagen Group ID.7 reducing significantly weight, cycle time and energy consumption. We are happy that we could support Lars Fölster and his Volkswagen Group team with the partners FORVIA, Müller Modell- und Formenbau GmbH & Co. KG, KraussMaffei and Stieler Kunststoff Service GmbH, with our #technicalservice competence beside providing our material solution enabling this success.   SECOND PLACE in the category BODY INTERIOR for the A-pillar made with our mold-in-color textile effect PP Compound replacing back injected fabrics for a Renault Group model. Beside system and cost optimization enabling an easier recyclability being a mono-material solution. Many thanks to our partners Renault Group and Eurostyle Systems.   THIRD PLACE in the category BODY EXTERIOR for claddings of the Renault Group Dacia made with our PP Compound including 20% of recycled PP with mold-in-color special effect with particles to highlight the use of the recycle content. Many thanks to our partners Renault Group, Metaplast and ImoplasticGroup.   SECOND PLACE in the category POWER TRAIN for the end cap of cooling systems for fuel cell as well as for diesel powered trucks made with our glass fibre reinforced advanced copolymer. This unique material is significantly outperforming the achievable lifetime under pressure or load enabling e.g. the replacement of Polyamide. Furthermore, our material solution enables a very low conductivity of the contained cooling liquid over time required for cooling systems of fuel cell powered trucks. Many thanks to our partners Daimler Truck AG and TRAD, Tests & Radiations.   NOMINATION AWARD in the category NEW MOBILITY for the AUDI AG MLT EV battery cooling tube made with our Polyamide, crafted PP and advanced copolymer PP Compound in multi-layer tube extrusion combined with thermoforming and laser welding. Many thanks to our partners PASS GmbH & Co. KG and Evosys Laser GmbH.   I was impressed by the inspiring keynote speeches from Mike Herbig from AUDI AG talking about “Circular design for the automotive industry” and from Nick Sohnemann from FUTURE CANDY GmbH talking about “Artificial Intelligence”.   And last but not least, it was great to see outstanding Master's theses by three students being honored in the new YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARD category. We need you as the experts of tomorrow to drive innovative and sustainable polymer solutions for the automotive industry and beyond! #LYBProud, #innovativematerials, #sustainability, #teamwork

Her Royal Highness, Queen of the Netherlands, Máxima visited NTCP today! We were very honoured and pleased to welcome her in our facilities as part of her Friesland tour organised by Circulair Friesland to learn more about the circular economy, and at NTCP on circular plastics in particular. The interactive discussions and sincere curiosity of the Queen during the visit and demonstration of our unique facilities were very inspiring. In two roundtable discussions we explained how a local project turned into an international knowledge centre. The first roundtable gave the opportunity for regional and national stakeholders that have been involved at the start of NTCP to explain on one hand how a local initiative became reality and on the other hand what the importance of cooperation within the ecosystem around circular plastics is. Participants at this table represented Provincie Fryslân (Friso Douwstra) , Omrin (John Vernooij) and Verpact (Hester Klein Lankhorst). The second roundtable discussion was focussing on the current leading international position that NTCP has grown into in a short time. NTCP is an internationally recognised centre of excellence, largely due to its independent position in the complete plastic chain. Representatives of key stakeholders in this chain, Marie-Catherine C. of Danone and Gerben Meier of LyondellBasell, participated in this discussion and explained the Queen how the expertise and results of NTCP supports them to make the decisions regarding the design and recycling of packaging materials and the international relevance and importance of the institute within the value chain in general. Royal House of the Netherlands, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat #queen #maxima #circularplastics #plasticrecycling