LyondellBasell Honors Employees Advancing Innovative Ideas
December 17, 2018
Areas Include Safety, Production and Operation
CLINTON, Iowa- Dec. 17, 2018 – An annual event at the LyondellBasell Clinton Complex celebrates innovation and initiative. Now in its 14th year, the Encore Awards recognizes outstanding staff who are advancing change with new ideas or solutions that deliver an impact at the facility.
“Big ideas need effective implementation so we’re celebrating staff who have given thought to their concepts from beginning to end,” said Jim Hillier, site manager of LyondellBasell’s Clinton Complex. “This is what excellence looks like. These top performers are not satisfied with just doing a great job, they assume ownership and that makes our site better.”
This year, 34 employees received awards at a site luncheon. Among the areas where the employees affected change include scheduling enhancements to safety improvements.
The Clinton Complex, which recently marked its 50-year anniversary, has invested extensively in the economic growth of the site. Expansions have more than tripled production from 380 million pounds to 1200 million pounds per year with their most recent expansion of 100 MM pounds increase in capacity.
“Innovations are needed by the people who know this site best, our employees,” said Hillier. “We encourage diversity of thought, experience, and state-of-the-art ideas that stretch and expand us to produce more efficiently, safer and smarter.”
“To be recognized by the site is an honor,” said Ron Tegeler, engineer and Encore Award recipient at the Clinton Complex. “I am very grateful to work with such an excellent group of engineers. We are always given the freedom to take ownership and drive toward solutions that truly help the long-term reliability of the plant.”
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About LyondellBasell’s Clinton Complex
With approximately 400 employees and contractors, and covering an area of almost 239 acres, the Clinton Complex is one of the largest chemical plants in Iowa. Using natural gas liquids as a feedstock, the plant manufactures ethylene, the world’s most widely-used petrochemical, which is then converted into polyethylene plastic resins. These resins are the building blocks for products such as leak-proof and shatter-proof containers for industrial and household chemicals, packaging that protects food from spoilage and contamination, and children’s toys that are safe and durable.
About LyondellBasell
LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) is one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world. Driven by its employees around the globe, LyondellBasell produces materials and products that are key to advancing solutions to modern challenges like enhancing food safety through lightweight and flexible packaging, protecting the purity of water supplies through stronger and more versatile pipes, improving the safety, comfort and fuel efficiency of many of the cars and trucks on the road, and ensuring the safe and effective functionality in electronics and appliances. LyondellBasell sells products into more than 100 countries and is the world's largest producer of polymer compounds and the largest licensor of polyolefin technologies. In 2018, LyondellBasell was named to Fortune magazine’s list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.” More information about LyondellBasell can be found at www.LyondellBasell.com.
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