ExxonMobil

Formed by the combination of two high-caliber organizations, Exxon and Mobil, the company is an industry leader in almost every aspect of the energy and petrochemical business.

Manufacturing Sites 　　　　　　　　　　　　
�@Antwerp, Belgium 　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　
�AAl Jubail, Saudi Arabia (Kemya) 　 　　　　　　　　
�BBaton Rouge, Louisiana 　　　　　　　
�CBeaumont, Texas 　　　　　　　　　　　
�DMeerhout, Belgium 　　　　　　　　　　
�EMont Belvieu, Texas 　　　　　　　　　
�FNotre Dame de Gravenchon, France 　
�GSingapore
�HYanbu, Saudi Arabia

　　Venezuela olefins JV （ExxonMobil-Pequiven）　new

Technology Centers
�@Baytown, Texas
�AMachelen, Belgium
�BSarnia, Canada

　　http://www.exxonmobilchemical.com/chemical/about/locations/

（November 30, 1999）　

Exxon And Mobil Confirm Federal Trade Commission Approval Of Merger
　　　　http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Newsroom/Newsreleases/Corp_xom_nr_301199.asp

Exxon Corporation and Mobil Corporation today confirmed that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) completed its review of the proposed merger and has approved a consent order for the merger of the two companies. Exxon and Mobil have accepted terms and conditions specified by the FTC and will comply with them fully and in a timely manner.

�@Antwerp, Belgium 　　

Antwerp Performance Intermediates Plant

The Antwerp Performance Intermediates Plant is the world's largest aliphatic hydro-carbon fluids plant. It is integrated with the Antwerp Esso Refinery. The plant began producing higher olefins in 1991. ExxonMobil Chemical also operates an ethylene terminal connected to its two polyethylene plants in Belgium, Meerhout and Zwijndrecht.

Products:

Aliphatic fluids, Hydrocarbon fluids for dry cleaning, Aromatic fluids,
Naphthenic fluids, Higher Olefins, Olefins, Aromatics

Antwerp Polymers Plant

The Antwerp Polymers Plant produces specialty low density polyethylene to meet the demands for flexible packaging mainly in Europe and the Far East. The plant was purchased in 1979.

Products:

LDPE, Polyethylene copolymers

�AAl Jubail, Saudi Arabia (Kemya) 　

Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company (Kemya)

One of ExxonMobil Chemical's joint ventures is a polyethylene plant located on the east coast of Saudi Arabia at Al-Jubail. This site, in operation since 1984, supplies products to the Asian, European, Mid-East and African markets.

Products: LLDPE, HDPE

�BBaton Rouge, Louisiana 　　　　　　

Baton Rouge Chemical Plant

Founded in 1940, ExxonMobil Chemical's plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a modern petrochemical processing and manufacturing facility located on 150 acres. The plant produces oxygenated fluids, ethers, olefins, ethylene-propylene rubber, halobutyl rubber, phthalic anhydride, plasticizers, alcohols and acids.

Products:

Olefins
Aromatics
Oxygenated fluids (MEK, SBA, IPA, Exxate fluids)
Phthalic anhydride
Plasticizers
Alcohols
Acids
Higher Olefins
Synthetic rubber
Hydrocarbon resins

Baton Rouge Plastics Plant

Founded in 1968, some of the products produced at the 118-acre Baton Rouge Plastics Plant include ethylene, vinyl acetate, various co-monomers and modifiers to produce low density polyethylene. This site also manufactures Exact Plastomers, using ExxonMobil Chemical's Exxpol catalyst and process technology.

Products:

LDPE
Polyethylene copolymers
Exxpol metallocene products (Exact Plastomers)

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＊Chemical Week 2002/5/1
ExxonMobil Breaks Ground on Metallocene Elastomers Project

Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding has started work on the previously announced expansion of ExxonMobil Chemical’s ethylene-based metallocene elastomers plant at Baton Rouge, LA, ExxonMobil says. The project will add 90,000 m.t./year of capacity, raising the total to 180,000 m.t./year, ExxonMobil says. The expansion is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2003.

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Baton Rouge Resin Finishing Plant

Acquired in 1983, the Resin Finishing Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is located on 63 acres. This facility primarily serves the U.S. market. The Escorez resins produced at the site are used primarily as raw materials in the production of pressure sensitive tapes, adhesives and sealants.

Products:Hydrocarbon resins (Escorez resins)

Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant

Founded in 1955 by W.R. Grace & Company, Paxon was acquired in 1995. The plant produces high density polyethylene for many applications including food containers, toys, oil and gas containers and durable drums for industrial products. It was one of the first in the industry along with Baton Rouge Elastomers to adopt Total Quality Management principles and achieve ISO 9000 certification. The Plant was expanded in 2000 to produce polypropylenes.

Products: HDPE, PP

The new plant has a polypropylene capacity of 272,000t/yr. Output will be Escorene homopolymer and some copolymer. Propylene polymers based on metallocene technology will also be produced at the unit.

�CBeaumont, Texas 　

Beaumont Olefins and Aromatics Plant

In April of 1999, production began at the expanded olefins plant in Beaumont with the facility's ethylene manufacturing capacity increased by about 45% to more than 1.8 billion pounds a year. The expansion also improved the plant's operating efficiency and enhanced its feedstock flexibility. Ethylene from the plant is used to make a wide range of household, commercial and industrial products. It can be converted into polyethylene that is used to make plastic bags and bottles, packaging films, housewares and toys. It also can be used to make other derivative chemicals that go into the making of synthetic lubricants, antifreeze, pain, polyester fibers and resins, polystyrene packaging, electrical components, polishes, medical products, PVC pipes, upholstery, luggage and more.

In recent years, the Beaumont aromatics facility has been upgraded to produce about 800 million pounds of toluene and more than 1.2 billion pounds of benzene. A 65-million-gallon-a-year grassroots cyclohexane plant started up in 1999. This upgrades part of the Beaumont complex's existing benzene and hydrogen supply to cyclohexane, an intermediate chemical used primarily to make nylon fibers and resin.

In 1997, we completed a project at Beaumont to produce 600 million pounds of paraxylene, a basic raw material for polyester fibers and resins used in textiles and plastics manufacturing. ExxonMobil's proprietary MTPX catalyst technology provides a significant cost advantage versus competing technologies.

Products: Olefins, Aromatics

Beaumont Polyethylene Plant

Construction to expand the Beaumont low-pressure polyethylene plant capacity by 14% to 1.6 billion was completed in October of 1998.

Products: LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE

Beaumont Chemical Specialty Plant

In 1997, approximately 85 million pounds of polyalphaolefins production, the base stock for advanced synthetic lubricants, was streamed to double the capacity at the Beaumont Chemical Products plant. Two major expansions at the Beaumont Specialty Plant also doubled output of zeolite catalysts, used in many refining and petrochemicals manufacturing processes.

Products:

Synthetic lube base stocks
Lubricant additives
Zeolite catalysts

�DMeerhout, Belgium

Meerhout Polymers Plant

The Meerhout Polymers Plant, in operations since 1977, produces low density polyethylene. It is supplied with ethylene via a pipeline network stretching from Rotterdam and Antwerp to Cologne.

Products: LDPE, Polyethylene copolymers

�EMont Belvieu, Texas

Mont Belvieu Plastics Plant

Founded in 1979, ExxonMobil Chemical's plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas, produces linear low density and high density polyethylenes.

Products:

Polyethylene (LLDPE, HDPE)
Exxpol metallocene products (Exceed mLLDPE )

�FNotre Dame de Gravenchon, France 　

Since 1959 at Notre-Dame de Gravenchon, between Rouen and Le Havre in Normandy, France, ExxonMobil Chemical has built its largest manufacturing complex outside the USA.

ExxonMobil Chemical Polymeres SNC

The polypropylene manufacturing unit produces raw materials for packaging films, nonwovens and injection molding specialties.

Products:Polypropylene

ExxonMobil Chemical SAS

This plant, acquired in 2001 from Basell, produces polypropylene homopolymers, impact copolymers and compounded materials mainly for automotive and appliance applications.
This polypropylene manufacturing and compounding site also includes an applications development laboratory and technical staff.

Products: Polypropylene

Cipen

This joint venture polyethylene plant started up in 1992. Here products are made mainly for packaging films and extrusion molding applications.

Products:

LLDPE
Exxpol metallocene products (Exceed mLLDPE)

Basell sells 50% share in French CIPEN to ExxonMobil

　

Societe du Caoutchouc Butyl (SOCABU)

The first French butyl rubber plant known as SOCABU started up in 1959. This ExxonMobil Chemical plant produces isobutylene, butyl rubber and ethylene-propylene rubber.

Products:

Synthetic rubber (Butyl rubber, EPDM rubber)
Isobutylene

ExxonMobil Chemical France

Products made at the site include aliphatic petroleum resins used in the adhesives industry and higher olefins.
The world's first heavy feed steam cracker was built in Notre-Dame de Gravenchon in 1967. It provides propylene, ethylene and butadiene to local chemical companies.

Products:

Olefins (Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene)
Hydrocarbon resins

Synthetic Lube Base Stocks Plant

Constructed in 1989, the Gravenchon facility uses state-of-the-art control technology and a dedicated reactor train that produces low viscosity PAOs with grades ranging from 2cSt to 10cSt. Providing superior products to the synthetic lubricant market, Gravenchon has been ISO-9002 certified since 1992 and has recently received ISO-14001 certification.

Products:

Synthetic lube base stocks
Lube and fuels additives

�GSingapore

Pulau Ayer Chawan Fluids Plant

Our Singapore plant supplies industrial fluids to the Asia Pacific markets.

Products:

Aliphatic fluids, Escaid products

Jurong Petrochemical Complex

The ExxonMobil Petrochemical Complex at Jurong integrates a world-class petrochemicals plant with a modern fuels refinery.

With a capacity of 245,000 barrels a day, the Jurong Refinery refines crude oil into products like liquefied petroleum gasoline, naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, diesel and fuel oil. Output from the Petrochemicals Complex is sold to downstream companies that transform them into polyester fibers, nylon, textiles, carpets, plastic products, paints, dye or polystyrene products.

The complex includes facilities with manufacturing capacities to produce 880 million pounds of paraxylene, 660 million pounds of benzene, 198 million pounds of orthoxylene, 500 million pounds of cyclohexane and 110 million pounds of toluene each year.

Products: Aromatics, Cyclohexane

Singapore Chemical Plant

This highly integrated complex is now supplying petrochemical products to the marketplace. Click here for our press release.

Products:

Ethylene
Propylene
Polyethylene
Benzene
Oxo alcohols
Polypropylene

�HYanbu, Saudi Arabia

Since completing an expansion in 2000, the ExxonMobil joint-venture petrochemicals complex at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, is one of the world's largest petrochemical facilities.

The Saudi Yanbu Petrochemical's Company (Yanpet) facility, a 50/50-joint venture with Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), produces more than 1.6 million metric tons of ethylene and more than two million metric tons of derivative products annually.
The original Yanpet ethylene cracker at Yanbu came on stream in 1985.

Products:

Ethylene
HDPE
PP
Ethylene glycol

Platts 2002/7/8

ExxonMobil-Pequiven olefins JV approved by economic team

Venezuela's delayed $2.65-bil olefins project with JV partner ExxonMobil has been approved by the country's economic cabinet, a spokesman for the energy ministry told Platts Monday.

The proposed 50-50 project between Venezuela's state Pequiven and ExxonMobil is designed to produce 1-mil mt/yr of ethylene, 780,000 mt/yr of polyethylene and 400,000 mt/yr of glycols.

Platts 2003/6/9

ExxonMobil PDVSA talks progress on Venezuela olefins JV project

ExxonMobil is making progress in renewed negotiations with state oil company PDVSA about developing a $2.65-bil olefins 50:50 JV project in eastern Venezuela, the company said Monday.

The project would be designed to produce 1-mil mt/yr of ethylene, 780,000 mt/yr of polyethylene and 400,000 mt/yr of glycols.

2004/2/9 ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Chemical Announces Start-Up of New Metallocene Plant Expansion at Baton Rouge, Louisiana
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Newsroom/NewsReleases/xom_nr_190204_1.asp

ExxonMobil Chemical has announced the completion and successful start-up of its new commercial metallocene ethylene elastomer manufacturing facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The facility, the first of its kind in the world, is now operational and will add capacity of more than 90 thousand tons of product annually.

ExxonMobil Chemical ethylene elastomer products marketed globally include Vistamaxx ^TM specialty elastomers, Exact® plastomers, Vistalon® EP(D)M, Exxelor^TM chemically modified polymers, and Santoprene® thermoplastic elastomers. These products are used in a variety of applications in markets that include automotive, construction, electrical, food packaging and consumer goods.

2004/7/21 Platts

Venezuela, ExxonMobil move forward on olefins project

US major ExxonMobil and Venezuela's state petrochemical company Pequiven have reached a tentative agreement on a $2.65-bil olefins joint venture in eastern Venezuela, an ExxonMobil official said Wednesday. "The negotiating teams have reached an understanding on how the project would be developed," the spokesman said. "It is now under review."

August 12, 2004 BNamericas

Pequiven, ExxonMobil sign US$3bn olefins agreement

The Pequiven petrochemical subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA and US-based ExxonMobil Chemical Company have signed an agreement to develop a US$2.5bn-3bn olefins project at the Jose petrochemicals complex in Anzoategui state, Pequiven said in a statement Thursday.

The project will include a cracking plant with capacity to produce 1 million metric tonnes annually of ethylene and derivatives.

ExxonMobil and Pequiven will each have 50% in the project, which will become the main provider of petrochemical products in Latin America and in other world markets, the statement said.

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ITC-CHEM-NEWS 2002/9/6

Pequiven と ExxonMobil、百万トンエチレンプロジェクト合意か

Venezuela 国営石油精製会社 PDVSA の Mr. Edgar Paredes が昨日 9月5日明らかにしたところによると、Pequiven と ExxonMobil が進めてきたオレフィンプロジェクトは近々合意に達し署名される予定だ、とのことである。

同プロジェクトは、過去 5年に亘って交渉されてきたものであり、サイトは Anzoategui州 Jose に位置し、出資は Pequiven と ExxonMobil 50:50 の合弁となる。
プラント年産能力は、エチレン 1,000,000トン、PE 760,000トン、EG 430,000トン等となっている。総資金は 23億ドル。

Platts 2005/1/11

ExxonMobil to open two PP metallization lines at Brindisi, Italy

ExxonMobil Chemical announced Tuesday it would instal two new metallization lines at its oriented polypropylene (OPP) films plant at Brindisi, Italy. The first line is set to start producing commercially in the first quarter of 2005, with the second line due to start up a few months later. The new vacuum metallizer lines have the ability to metallize a range of gauges between 12
and 50 microns at high speeds, providing outstanding barrier properties. "The new metallizers will give us much more flexibility and responsiveness to growing market demand," says Carlo Ranucci, general manager, ExxonMobil Chemical Films Europe. ExxonMobil has seven affiliated production plants: three in Europe (Virton in Belgium; Kerkrade in the Netherlands; and Brindisi in Italy) and four in North America (LaGrange in Georgia; Stratford in Connecticut; Shawnee in Oklahoma; and Belleville in Canada.)

2005/1/28 ExxonMobil Chemical

ExxonMobil Chemical to Expand Oxo Alcohol Capacity in Singapore
http://www.exxonmobilchemical.com/public_pa/WorldwideEnglish/Newsroom/NewsReleases/chem_nr_280105.asp

ExxonMobil Chemical is expanding the capacity of its world-class oxo alcohol plant in Singapore. The Singapore Chemical Plant will increase its iso-nonyl alcohol capacity from 180,000 tons-per-year to 220,000 tons-per-year. Project completion is expected by 3Q 2006.

The Singapore oxo alcohol plant started up in 2001 with a capacity of 150,000 tons-per-year and subsequently increased to 180,000 tons-per-year in June 2004.

2006/1/4 Foster Wheeler

Foster Wheeler Awarded PCS Contract for Planned New Petrochemical Project in Singapore
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=fwlt&script=418&layout=-6&item_id=800250

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. has awarded the team of Foster Wheeler and WorleyParsons a project coordination and services contract for a potential new project at ExxonMobil's Singapore Chemical Plant site. This project, known as the Singapore Parallel Train (SPT), would include the possible construction of a new world-scale ethylene cracker, as well as downstream plants for production of ethylene/propylene derivatives.

2006/5/10 ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Chemical Introduces New Line of Compounded Polyolefins for Automotive Industry

ExxonMobil Chemical today introduced a line of compounded polypropylene for the automotive industry. ExxonMobil Performance Polyolefins are available from ExxonMobil Chemical facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.

ExxonMobil Chemical offers numerous products for a wide variety of automotive applications. The products may be supplied from our manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe or Asia Pacific.

-- Santoprene(TM) TPV and Vistalon(TM) EPR and EPDM elastomers are key products used in automotive body sealing applications.

-- Jayflex(TM) plasticizers are key components in hundreds of automotive flexible PVC applications, for both interior and exterior use.

-- Specific grades of high density polyethylene have been designed for fuel tanks and energy management systems. These grades exhibit superior toughness and offer long life.

-- Butyl polymers, including butyl, chlorobutyl and bromobutyl rubber, are key components in tires for cars and trucks.

-- Lubricants based on our synthetic base stocks provide superior wear protection and extended life to automotive oils and greases. In addition, automotive paints incorporate our aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon fluids as well as isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK).

2006/11/8　ExxonMobil Chemical

エクソンモービルケミカル 米国テキサス州ベイタウン工場ハロゲン化ブチルゴム生産能力増強の件

　エクソンモービル ケミカル カンパニー（エクソン モービル コーポレーションの化学品部門: 以下エクソンモービルケミカル）は、当社のテキサス州ベイタウン工場におけるハロゲン化ブチルゴム（ハロブチルゴム）生産能力の大幅な増強を行うことを決定しましたのでお知らせいたします。同工場は、既存設備の改良や新設備の追加により、「エクソン・ブロモブチルBromobutyl 」ゴムの生産能力を60%増強する予定です。今回の増強は、ハロブチルゴムの国際市場やタイヤ業界における旺盛な需要や急速な成長を支えるという当社の姿勢を明確に示すもので、関連工事の完了は2008 年4-6 月期を予定しています。
　
　エクソンモービルケミカルは、世界のタイヤ業界向けにハロブチルゴムを供給する主要サプライヤーであり、過去10 年間で生産能力を80％増強しています。
　-- 2002 年にベイタウン工場を拡張し、ハロブチルゴムの生産能力を4 倍に増強しました。
　-- エクソンモービル・ケミカルグループの一員であるエクソンモービル有限会社が合弁出資している日本ブチル株式会社（本社: 神奈川県川崎市）は、アジア太平洋地域の需要増に対応して、このほど同社のハロブチルゴム生産能力を年間70,000 トンに増強しました。

　この他、ベイタウン・ブチル工場では、タイヤインナーライナーの空気不透過性を向上させる新技術に使われる、当社が独自に開発した特殊エラストマーExxpro（エクスプロ）の生産能力を倍増する拡張プロジェクトが進められています。同プロジェクトは2005 年に発表され、本年末までの完了を目指しています。

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November 2, 2005 -- ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Chemical to Expand EXXPRO Specialty Elastomers Capacity in Baytown, Texas, to Support Advancements in High-Barrier, Lightweight Tire Inner Liners

ExxonMobil Chemical has announced today that it is doubling its production capability for its proprietary Exxpro specialty elastomers used in the construction of tire inner liners, as a result of new investment and recent operational improvements. The expansion of the company's plant in Baytown, Texas, is targeted for completion in the fourth quarter, 2006.

February 12, 2007 ExxonMobil Chemical Films Business http://www.oppfilms.com./

ExxonMobil Chemical Upgrades LaGrange Oriented Polypropylene (OPP) Film Manufacturing Facility

The Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical today announced plans to significantly increase production of specialty oriented polypropylene (OPP) films in LaGrange, Georgia. 

The company will upgrade the LaGrange facility to increase its North American capacity for multi-layer white OPP films. The multimillion dollar investment will allow the company to satisfy the rapid growth in demand for specialty OPP films, such as OPPalyte(TM) white opaque film for candy cold-seal applications, OPPalyte(TM) WOS-2 and STW white opaque films for ice cream novelty applications and Label-Lyte(TM) films for wet glue and pressure sensitive labeling.


About the Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical
The Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical is a global leader in the development and manufacture of specialty oriented polypropylene (OPP) films, including multi-layer white opaque films, metallized films and acrylic and PVdC coated films, for flexible packaging and labeling applications. The Films Business has affiliated production plants in Europe (Virton, Belgium; Kerkrade, the Netherlands, and Brindisi, Italy), and North America (LaGrange, Georgia; Shawnee, Oklahoma; Stratford, Connecticut and Belleville, Canada). The company and its affiliates have sales offices to support customer needs in countries around the world, including North America, Europe and Asia. Additional information regarding the Films Business can be found at: www.oppfilms.com.

2007/3/29 ExxonMobil Chemical

ExxonMobil Chemical Increases Production Capacity of SpectraSyn(TM) Polyalphaolefins

ExxonMobil Chemical has completed several debottleneck projects at its Synthetics Plant in Beaumont, Texas, that increase capacity to produce high viscosity SpectraSyn 40 cSt and SpectraSyn 100 cSt polyalphaolefins (PAO) by 15 percent.

SpectraSyn high viscosity PAO products are attractive blend components for increasing basestock viscosity and upgrading quality over a wide range of lubricant applications. These synthetic blend stocks offer improved flow at low temperatures and increased film thickness at high temperatures.

"This high viscosity PAO capacity investment will help our customers meet the growing demand for high-performance lubricants," says Page Greenwood, PAO Marketing Manager, Synthetics Global Business.

April 03, 2007 ExxonMobil Chemical

ExxonMobil's New Olgone Aromatic Treatment Technology Proves Successful at NPRC's Muroran Refinery

Olgone is an innovative aromatics treatment technology that provides an economical, easy-to-implement alternative to clay treatment.

ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC today announced the successful start-up of the first licensed application of its new Olgone Process. Nippon Petroleum Refining Company, Ltd.'s (NPRC) installed the Olgone Process at its Muroran Refinery to remove olefins from a heavy reformate feed, replacing the traditional clay treatment process. The mixed xylenes separated from the treated heavy reformate are then converted to paraxylene by NPRC and others.

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2006/10/9

ExxonMobil Introduces Innovative Aromatics Treatment Technology
　　　Olgonesm provides economical, easy-to-implement alternative to clay treatment

ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC today announced the commercialization of its new Olgone technology for more effective and environmentally sound removal of olefins from aromatics streams. Olgone is a catalyst-driven technology that provides aromatics plant operators with an alternative to the clay treaters currently used to reduce olefin content. Olgone is more effective than clay treaters in removing olefinic materials that can interfere with downstream equipment, adsorbents, sieves and catalysts.

June 19, 2007 ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Chemical Company Announces Manufacturing Facility for New Specialty Compounds for Tires

ExxonMobil Chemical Company today announced it will begin construction of a facility to manufacture new specialty elastomer compounds that can improve the durability of tires, make them lighter weight by using less raw material and significantly reduce fuel consumption.  Start-up of the plant is expected in early 2008 to satisfy demand for the products that combine the flexibility and elasticity of rubber with the low air permeability of plastic.
 
The plant will manufacture a dynamically vulcanized 加硫 alloy (DVA) of proprietary Exxpro^TM specialty elastomers and nylon.  This new Exxpro-based alloy can be blown into films and used as the air barrier inner liner of tires. ExxonMobil Chemical expects to commercialize the technology in late 2007. Exxpro marks the first major technology advancement to tire inner liner raw materials since ExxonMobil started producing halobutyl products in 1961. 
 

 
The initial market development facility for manufacturing will be located in Pensacola, Florida.  The investment will fully leverage the company’s existing proprietary extrusion technology at this location. The facility will supply customers globally.
 
In 2004, ExxonMobil Chemical and Yokohama Rubber Company announced significant technical advancements in the area of Exxpro polymer and dynamically vulcanized alloy technology for tire inner liners.  
 
In 2006, ExxonMobil Chemical Company completed an expansion at the company's plant in Baytown to double production capability for its proprietary Exxpro specialty elastomers.
 

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October 5, 2006

ExxonMobil Chemical and Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. Achieve Winter Test Qualification for Jointly Developed Advanced Tire Inner Liner

A milestone in the development of improved tire inner liners was announced today by ExxonMobil Chemical Company and The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. (YRC) following tests to qualify their jointly developed technology for use in passenger vehicle tires in harsh winter conditions. 

The companies' development of DVA (dynamically vulcanized alloy) advanced tire inner liner technology is based on proprietary Exxpro polymers and alloys of those polymers developed by ExxonMobil, as well as alloys and application technology developed by YRC. The DVA advanced inner liner technology used in the film liner materials combines the flexibility and elasticity of a rubber with the low-air permeability of a plastic.

　

2007/6/20 ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Announces Successful Start-up of PxMax Technology at S-Oil's Onsan Refinery
　　PxMax is ExxonMobil's State-of-the-Art Technology for Selective Toluene Disproportionation

ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC and S-Oil Corporation today announced the successful start-up of ExxonMobil's PxMax technology at S-Oil's Onsan refinery and chemical complex in South Korea. The PxMax process licensed by ExxonMobil and implemented at the Onsan refinery replaced a non-selective toluene disproportionation 不均化　(TDP) process that produced equilibrium mixed xylenes. The selective nature of the PxMax process provides S-Oil with a paraxylene-enriched mixture that is further processed into sales grade paraxylene product at S-Oil's facility.

PxMax SM(Selective Toluene Disproportionation)

ExxonMobil Chemical now offers its PxMax technology for commercial licensing. PxMax is the new process name for our state-of-the-art Selective Toluene DisProportionation (STDP) technology, previously know as MTPX, and first put into commercial operation in 1996.  PxMax services provide full support for licensees from initial consultation through technology transfer and on-going improvements.

Compared to its predecessor MSTDP, the PxMax process offers:

• Higher purity paraxylene-rich xylenes (90%+)
• Higher total xylenes yield
• Superior xylenes/benzene ratio

These advantages, combined with lower operating temperatures and reduced H2/hydrocarbon requirements, can result in increased profits and significant debottleneck opportunities.

The PxMax process flow is typical for a vapor-phase reaction in a fixed bed reactor. Toluene feed, combined with hydrogen-rich recycle gas, is preheated and passed through the catalyst bed. Here, disproportionation occurs, at moderate temperature and pressure, to produce a paraxylene-rich xylene product along with co-product benzene. The by-product yields are small.

The reactor effluent is cooled by heat exchange and the liquid products are separated from the recycle gas. The separated liquid is stripped to remove the light ends and then fractionated to recover a very high purity benzene product and a highly enriched paraxylene stream for recovery of paraxylene. Unreacted toluene is recycled to extinction.

July 31, 2007 ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Chemical Begins Commercial Production of Butyl Rubber Using a Proprietary New Breakthrough Technology

ExxonMobil Chemical announced today that it has begun commercial production of butyl rubber at its Notre Dame de Gravenchon (NDG) plant in France using a new proprietary breakthrough process technology that it pioneered.
 
The new technology enables ExxonMobil Chemical to significantly increase its butyl rubber production capacity from its existing plants. Moreover, the technology also improves energy efficiencies as it enables the butyl rubber polymerization process to be run at more efficient temperatures.

September 24, 2007 ExxonMobil Chemical

ExxonMobil Chemical Announces Expansion of its Rotterdam Aromatics Plant

ExxonMobil Chemical today announced it will invest in an expansion of its Rotterdam Aromatics Plant. The expansion will make this world-scale plant ExxonMobil’s largest paraxylene production facility, increasing its paraxylene production capacity by 25 percent and benzene production capacity by 20 percent.

Rotterdam Aromatics Plant
　・Aromatics: Benzene, Toluene, Paraxylene, Orthoxylene, Mixed Xylenes
　・Cyclohexane

Rotterdam Oxo Alcohol Plant
　・Alcohols: Oxo-alcohols
　・Vammar products

Rotterdam Plasticizers Plant and Phthalic Anhydride Plant
　・Jayflex plasticizers
　・Phthalic anhydride

October 8, 2007 ExxonMobil Chemical

ExxonMobil Chemical Forms New Specialty Business to Supply High Performance Compounded Polyolefin Products

ExxonMobil Chemical Company today announced that it has formed a new specialty compounds and composites business to focus on the development, production and marketing of engineered polyolefin compounds. The new business is organized to provide customers with efficient delivery of innovative products that fully utilize ExxonMobil's polymer and process development capabilities and global reach.
 
 
The business portfolio includes a new line of ExxonMobil Performance Polyolefins for automotive applications. Products range from soft and flexible compounds to reinforced composites. This is made possible by ExxonMobil's extensive slate of polypropylene, polyethylene, and elastomer base polymers that can be produced globally and tailored for specialty compounds.