LyondellBasell Industries N : - Our Company's response to COVID-19
March 30, 2020 at 09:21 am EDT
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Each day we are presented with new challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Though we may be in uncharted waters, we are stepping up to each challenge with one guiding principle the health and safety of our people. There's no higher priority. As we learn more from the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), European Centers for Disease Control (ECDC) and other health authorities about this virus and how it is spread, we are making decisions to help protect our LyondellBasell family in every way we can.
Make no mistake: team LYB is on the front lines of combatting the coronavirus and helping to keep people healthy. A huge thanks and appreciation goes out to those LyondellBasell team members who are keeping our plants running safely and reliably, ensuring that we continue supplying the many vital products that power the industries supporting healthcare, hygiene and medicine. There is a reason governments have designated our sector as 'critical infrastructure' during this time. For example, our polypropylene resins are used by our customers to produce melt-blown fibers that provide filtration in facemasks; our masterbatch products are used in breathable films for protective suits and our polypropylene, ethylene oxide, and propylene oxide are used to make medical syringes, medical test kits, soaps, disinfectants, and many other products.
OUR PEOPLE
The professionalism and flexibility of our employees enable us to manage through this challenging time. To keep them safe and healthy, we have asked all office-based employees who are able to perform their jobs remotely to work from home. For employees whose work is location-based, we continue to take proactive measures at our locations to help protect our global workforce and site visitors. These precautionary measures include: implementing health-based entrance screenings to sites increasing the frequency of cleaning and sanitization of common areas and turnstiles encouraging social distancing and increased hygiene practices while at work providing sanitizing products to all workers and visitors replacing some turnstiles with guards for touch-free access, and installing plexiglass barriers for certain entrance locations.
THANK YOU
It's times like these when it's important to express our gratitude. Thank you to our workforce and all the healthcare professionals, first responders, grocery store workers and many more who are fighting this pandemic and helping to ensure our health and wellbeing. We appreciate everything you are doing.
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. is one of the world's largest chemical groups. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- production of olefins and polyolefin (50.2%): ethylene, propylene, butadiene, polypropylene components, etc.;
- manufacturing of intermediate chemical products (21.6%): propylene oxide, acetyl, ethanol, ethylene oxide, etc.;
- refining of highly sulfide crude oil (15.6%): activity ensured in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. The group also produces oxy-fuel;
- manufacturing of advanced polymer solutions (11.1%): polypropylene compounds, engineering plastics, composite materials, advanced polymers, etc. ;
- development of chemical and polyolefin process technologies (1.5%). The group also manufactures polyolefin catalysts.
At the end of 2021, the group had 34 production sites worldwide.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: the Netherlands (3%), the United States (48.8%), Germany (7.4%), China (5%), Italy (4%), Mexico (3.4%), Japan (3.1%), France (3%), Poland (2.5%) and other (19.8%).