Equistar
Rachel Crum, Matt Denlinger, Grace
Background Information
• $9.7 billion chemical commodities company
• Formed in 1997
• Owned by Lyondell Chemical Company since 2004
Locations
• Headquarters in Houston
• Plants and Manufacturing Facilities in
Texas, Louisiana, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, and New Jersey
• Technology Center in Cincinnati
Lyondell
• Seventh Largest global chemical company. (Based on sales)
• Operates on five continents
• Hold more than 500 U.S. patents and approximately 1,250 patents worldwide.
• Employs approximately 10,000 people
worldwide.
Top chemical products
• Second largest
producer of ethylene and propylene in N.
America.
• Produce more than 11 Billion pounds of ethylene.
• Number one domestic producer of industrial ethyl alcohol.
Top polymer products
• Major producer in north America of polyolefin resins
• Leading producers of polyethylene,
polypropylene, and polyolefin powders
• Polyethylene products include plastic bottles, grocery bags and
coatings
Distributing partners
• General Polymers-Polyethylene
• M.Holland Company-Resin solutions
• Performance Polymers-Polypropylene
• Chem Point-commodity chemicals
Research and Development
•Catalyst Research
•Polymer Physics
•Product Characterization
•Product and Applications Development
Goals of Equistar Research and Development
•Reduction of manufacturing costs.
•Improvement of process capabilities.
•Development of new products and applications to meet target market needs.
Laboratory
260,000
square feet of research and office Space
The laboratories is where new polymers and related chemicals are developed
and their molecular complexities probed and analyzed.
WORKING AT EQUISTAR
Coop and Internships
First term
• Learn the methods of plant data
acquisition and use the data to perform material balances, which can be
incorporated into the daily monitoring and reports for that unit
• Gain plant experience working with
operators and looking inside any open equipment
• Conduct heat exchanger surveys, which involves both field work and engineering calculations / simulations
Job Description
•Monitor, troubleshoot, optimize and debottleneck operating units resulting in process and product improvements
•Apply technical knowledge to detect causes of
deviations in quality, capacity, yield and energy usage
•Recommend solutions and help implement changes on unit performance
