Beaumont is now home to Exxon Mobil’s largest polyethylene plant after the Irving company started production on a huge new polyethylene line that expands the petrochemical plant’s capacity by 65 percent.Exxon Mobil said Wednesday it the new polyethylene plant boosts production by 650,000 tons per year, bringing site capacity to nearly 1.7 million tons per year at the Beaumont plant. The multi-billion investment builds on other recent investments Exxon recently completed in 2017, when it added two new polyethylene lines to its Mont Belvieu, Texas plant.
Source: FuelFix
