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Product Portfolio Overview Focus: Polymers

1 lyondellbasell.com Our Key Product Areas The LyondellBasell team is inspired by the power of possibility. We are passionate about the role we play in supporting our customers’ efforts to develop products to meet the challenges of today while advancing innovations that will improve tomorrow. To do so, LyondellBasell develops products and solutions in five key areas

POLYMERS ADVANCED CHEMICALS FUELS TECHNOLOGIES We produce the chemical Our refinery in the U.S. We license our state-of- Our versatile plastic POLYMERS building blocks for: produces: the-art manufacturing resins are used to create Our diverse portfolio is used and process a variety of products ❙ automotive fluids ❙ gasoline / fuel to create customizable technologies including: ❙ furniture / household components products including: ❙ rigid and flexible goods ❙ low-sulfur diesel ❙ automotive parts packaging ❙ coatings / adhesives / ❙ jet fuel ❙ differentiated ❙ textiles cleaners ❙ lubricants packaging ❙ wire and cable ❙ cosmetics / personal ❙ oxyfuels ❙ electronics/appliances care products ❙ automotive ❙ building and ❙ appliances construction materials ❙ healthcare ❙ oil field services ❙ piping ❙ aerospace ❙ pipe ❙ agriculture ❙ gelcoats Our materials and technologies are advancing solutions in:

Food safety and access through food Sustainable and modern living packaging and films that improve through components in solar panels freshness, portability, extend shelf-life and a variety of products such as and prevent contamination. children’s toys, cosmetics, leak-proof LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) is one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining and shatter-proof containers. companies in the world. Driven by its employees around the globe, LyondellBasell Cleaner air and fuel efficiency through produces materials and products that are key to advancing solutions to modern stronger, lighter plastics that allow for Quality healthcare through a variety ABOUT challenges like enhancing food safety through lightweight and flexible packaging, the production of more fuel efficient cars of medical supplies including synthetic protecting the purity of water supplies through stronger and more versatile pipes, and trucks and through special gasoline latex gloves, hand sanitizers, biohazard improving the safety, comfort and fuel efficiency of many of the cars and trucks on additives that help reduce air pollution bags, medicine containers and pill US the road, and ensuring the safe and effective functionality in electronics and from vehicles. coatings. appliances. LyondellBasell sells products into more than 100 countries and is the world’s largest producer of polymer compounds and the largest licensor of Clean water through strong, long-lasting Agricultural efficiency through lighter polyolefin technologies. pipes used in municipal water systems machinery, crop protection and soil More information about LyondellBasell can be found at www.lyondellbasell.com. and key elements used in water filtration conditioning, as well as in greenhouses, systems. landscaping and waste disposal.

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A LEGACY OF INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP Lyondell Chemical LyondellBasell began Company is formed Basell completes start-up construction of new LyondellBasell Predecessor company, Atlantic The Glacido Acetic from selected of the world’s largest low Hyperzone HDPE finalizes acquisition Richfield Company (ARCO), Acid process first chemical and density polyethylene plant LyondellBasell plant in La Porte, of A. Schulman Inc., Hoechst, a predecessor company, initi- develops the PO/TBA process commercialized refining assets of (LDPE) in Berre, France, listed on the Texas utilizing the creating the industry’s LyondellBasell launches ated industrial-scale production of PE (propylene oxide with tertiary butyl by LyondellBasell Atlantic Richfield with a single line capacity NYSE (Ticker company’s new largest compounding Circulen and Circulen in , Germany. alcohol (TBA) as the co-product). predecessor company. Company (ARCO). of 320,000 tons per year. symbol: LYB). proprietary technology. business. Plus bio-based polymers. 1953-54 1955 1957 1963 1969 1975 1980 1982 1985 2000 2001 2007 2010 2014 2017 2018 2019 2020 Predecessor company Montecatini, a predecessor Ziegler and Natta Start-up of the Spheripol process, Basell is formed through Basell acquires Lyondell LyondellBasell is LyondellBasell enters into LyondellBasell is scientists Professor Karl company, became the are jointly awarded first Hostalen high currently the most widely the merger of Montell, to become LyondellBasell named ‘Responsible joint venture with SUEZ to named to Fortune Ziegler and Giulio Natta make first to produce the the Nobel Prize density polyethylene used polyolefins process Targor and Elenac; a Industries - one of the world’s Care Company of the operate Quality Circular magazine’s list of breakthrough discoveries in thermoplastic resin on in Chemistry. (HDPE) process technology, first introduced 50/50 joint venture be- largest polymers, chemicals Year’ by the American Polymers (QCP), a high the “World’s Most the creation of polyethylene an industrial scale at its 4 plant. by predecessor company tween BASF and Shell. and fuels companies. Chemistry Council.5 standard plastics recycling Admired Companies” (PE) and polypropylene (PP). , Italy plant. Montedison. company in Sittard-Geleen, for the third Netherlands. consecutive year. Polymers at a Glance

LyondellBasell Portfolio LyondellBasell produces versatile polymers and advanced polymers. These materials produce a Polymers Advanced Polymers LyondellBasell is one of the world’s largest LyondellBasell offers a full product portfolio of variety of products that producers of ethylene and propylene, base for masterbatch solutions, engineering plastics, are used to advance versatile plastic resins, such as polypropylene engineered composites, specialty powders, and polyethylene. Catalloy, PB-1 resins, PP compounds, custom solutions in nearly performance colors and distribution services. every sector of the Our high-performance resins and plastics compounds are used as raw materials in a economy. variety of markets.

Key Advantages Key Advantages

Cutting edge and differentiated Vertically integrated global polymer product portfolio. manufacturer - end to end customer Advancing solutions in nearly every solutions - expanded reach into sector of the economy, including growing markets - scalable growth automotive, renewable energy platforms - focused innovation. technologies, packaging, piping, textiles and healthcare.

Selected Products Selected Products

Catalloy Process Resins HDPE Polybutene-1 LDPE Polypropylene Compounds LLDPE Masterbatches Tie Layers Color Concentrates Homopolymers PP Specialty Powders Impact Copolymers PP Engineered Polymers Random Copolymers PP Engineered Composites

End Uses End Uses

❚ Rigid and ❚ Appliances ❚ Automotive parts ❚ Building and flexible ❚ Healthcare ❚ Differentiated construction packaging ❚ Piping packaging materials ❚ Textiles ❚ Electronics / ❚ Aerospace ❚ Wire and Cable Appliances ❚ Pipe ❚ Automotive ❚ Oil field services ❚ Agriculture ❚ Gel coats

6 7 Polymers Overview Selected Products

❚ POLYETHYLENE: excellent balance of properties including good ❚ POLYPROPYLENE: ― High-density polyethylene: HDPE resins melt strength, flexibility, and excellent optics, ― Homopolymers: Polypropylene are thermoplastic materials made from the making it suited for a number of applications homopolymers are thermoplastic resins polymerization of ethylene in gas phase, slurry such as film, healthcare and wire & cable. produced through the polymerization of or solution reactors. Polymerization takes place propylene. The homopolymers can be used Highlighted Product Brands: Lucalen (Global), under low-pressure conditions with the support in different processing technologies, such as LyondellBasell is a leading worldwide producer of polyethylene and polypropylene. Microthene (Global), Petrothene (Global), Plexar of catalysts. HDPE is characterized by a linear injection molding, film, fiber, sheet extrusion (Global), Purell (Global), Ultrathene (Global) Our polymers are used in extrusion, blow molding and injection molding processes polymer chain with few branches, and contains and thermoforming where stiffness and for a wide variety of end markets including food and beverage packaging, smaller amounts of comonomers such as ― Linear low-density polyethylene: LLDPE temperature resistance are relevant and butene, hexene or octene. These resins are resins are thermoplastic materials made by provide a broad set of properties to meet the construction, wire and cable, healthcare and automotive markets. used in a variety of processing techniques such the polymerization of ethylene in presence of market needs in packaging, household goods, as extrusion, extrusion blow molding, injection alpha-olefinic comonomers in low-pressure textiles, film, healthcare and pipe as well as and rotational molding. HDPE forms the largest catalytic processes. Contrary to high pressure applications in the automotive and electrical product family in polyethylene, and is used in resins, LLDPE materials are characterized by industries. numerous customer applications such as pipe, their linear structures. In combination with Highlighted Product Brands: Adstif (Global), plastic fuel tanks, industrial packaging, bottles, Key Advantages their high flexibility these products are used Metocene (Global), Moplen (Europe and Asia), healthcare articles, containers, toys, films, in a variety of processing techniques, like film, Profax (Americas), Purell (Europe and Asia) tapes and fibers. molding and compounding. ❚ Products used in a broad range of applications and in products that people use every day with increasing demand in developing markets ― Impact Copolymers: Polypropylene impact Highlighted Product Brands: Alathon (Global), Highlighted Product Brands: Microthene ❚ copolymers are thermoplastic resins produced Operate multiple major integrated olefin and olefin derivative sites, which provide cost efficiencies through economies of scale and optimization Hostalen (Global), Hyperzone (Global), Luflexen (Global), Petrothene (Global), Plexar (Global) through the polymerization of propylene and ❚ (Europe), Lupolen (Global), Microthene (Global), U.S. access to shale gas, low cost NGLs, and the ability to process NGLs up to 90 percent of ethylene production ethylene or butylene. Their synthesis consists Petrothene (Global), Plexar (Global), Purell ― Tie Layers: Under the Plexar brand, a broad ❚ Feedstock advantaged joint ventures and differentiated premium grade polyolefin products of a heterophasic amorphous structure (Europe) array of resins is available that provide excellent inside a semi-crystalline PP homopolymer adhesion to ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH), matrix providing high impact properties ― Low-density polyethylene: LDPE resins are polyamide (nylon), PET and polyolefins. They and thermal resistance. Due to their broad thermoplastics made from the polymerization are used in multilayer structures to bond range of properties, impact copolymers are of ethylene in tubular or autoclave reactors dissimilar polymers together. LyondellBasell used in packaging, houseware, film, and pipe at very high pressures. Unlike low-pressure Plexar resins provide superior performance in applications, as well as in the automotive and polymerization technologies, high-pressure Hyperzone PE technology produces coextrusion applications such as blown and electrical segments. polymerization produces highly-branched cast film, extrusion coating, blow molding, HDPE that enables our customers to polymer structures and allows the co- sheet extrusion, wire and cable technology, and Highlighted Product Brands: Hostalen obtain an optimal balance between ease polymerization of ethylene with polar in other industrial bonding applications (Europe), Profax (Americas), Purell (Europe comonomers, such as vinyl acetate or butyl and Asia) of processing and high performance Highlighted Product Brands: Plexar (Global) acrylate. LDPE is a versatile polymer offering an end-product physical properties. ― Random Copolymers: Polypropylene random copolymers are thermoplastic resins produced through the polymerization of Material to End Market propylene, with ethylene, butene or hexene bonds introduced in the polymer chain. The resins provide a broad range of characteristics, and are used in a wide range of applications as high clarity/transparency packaging, injection molding, blow molding, cast, BOPP and blown film, pipe and thermoforming. They provide numerous benefits included very good transparency and glass, broad range of melting points and seal initiation temperature (SIT), very good aesthetic characteristics, and the best radiation resistance amongst polypropylene resin types. Highlighted Product Brands: Moplen (Europe and Asia), Profax (Americas), Purell (Europe and Asia)

8 9 Advanced Polymers Overview Selected Products ❚ Catalloy Process Resins ❚ Engineered Polymers ❚ Polypropylene Compounds A technology creating reactor thermoplastic Specializing in the design and manufacture of Thermoplastic resins produced using base polyolefins that combine the advantages of high-performance plastic compounds and resins polyolefins with various components like polyolefins with those of elastomers to meet demanding applications and colors fillers and reinforcements, and pigments and additives Highlighted Product Brands: Hifax (Global), Highlighted Product Brands: Schulamid LyondellBasell is a leading supplier of high-performance plastics compounds Softell (Global), Adsyl (Global), Adflex (Global) (Global), Schuladur (Europe), Ronfalin (Europe) Highlighted Product Brands: Hostacom (Global), Hifax (Global), Softell (Global) and resins offering a full portfolio of masterbatch solutions, engineering plastics, ❚ Color Concentrates ❚ Masterbatches Offering a wide color portfolio paired with Enhanced additive concentrates that improve ❚ Specialty Powders engineered composites, specialty powders, Catalloy and PB-1 resins, PP compounds, custom color matching for your most the appearance and performance of resins Size reduction technology to deliver powders custom performance colors and distribution services. We offer this product portfolio challenging color applications across many processes to suit many markets and applications such as Oil & Gas and Rotomolding Highlighted Product Brands: Polybatch Highlighted Product Brands: Polybatch on a global scale and in a wide range of markets, ranging from automotive, electrical, (Global), Polycycle (Europe), Cord-o-bond (Global), Polywhite (Global), Polyblak (Global) Highlighted Product Brands: Icorene (Global) (Americas) building and construction, pipe, oil and gas, to agriculture and packaging. ❚ Polybutene-1 ❚ Engineered Composites High molecular weight isotactic, semi- LyondellBasell’s rich product portfolio and deep market understanding allows for A diverse thermoset portfolio of BMC, SMC, crystalline thermoplastic polyolefins produced TMC and our Quantum Engineered Structural through the polymerization of butene-1 and innovative custom solutions to ensure our customers succeed in the market place. Composites for industrial to niche markets ethylene Highlighted Product Brands: Quantum Highlighted Product Brands: Koattro (Global), Key Advantages Engineered Structural Composites (Global) Toppyl (Global), Akoalit Global), Akoafloor (Global)

❚ Vertically integrated global manufacturer Advanced Polymers - Technology Overview ❚ End-to-end customer solutions ❚ Expanded reach into growing markets ❚ Scalable growth platform ❚ Focused innovation Polymer Blends and Flame Retardants HIGH PERFORMANCE PLASTICS PA/PPO, PA/ASA, PA/ABS, PC/ ABS, PC/ASA, PBT/PC, PET/PBT and more… ENGINEERING PP SMC 2 PLASTICS O A POM 6 / 61 SA 6 / 6 CT PMM PC PA BT P V A PV ET P / TP C P TPE MABS BMC Increased O Performance -1 TP STANDARD P PB ABS P PLASTICS LLDPE SAN LDPE SBC SBS HDPE PC EVA Am line orphou rystal s Semi-C Innovation + Portfolio Breadth = Best-fit products to meet application needs

10 11 Advancing Circular Other Key Product Areas Economy

RECYCLED POLYMERS Quality Circular Polymer (QCP), a joint venture between LyondellBasell and SUEZ, delivers a 100 percent mechanically recycled polymer offering. QCP uses presorted polyethylene and polypropylene waste and turns it into high-quality polymers. These polymers are used in consumer products like detergent bottles, strollers and even a new eco luggage collection from Samsonite. Chemicals Fuels Technology

Our chemical offering produces and markets Our Houston refinery is capable of refining Our Technology segment develops and licenses POLYMERS BASED ON propylene oxide and its derivatives, oxyfuels and heavy, high-sulfur crude oil into refined products chemical and polyolefin process technologies RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCK related products, and intermediate chemicals including gasoline and distillates. Our significant and manufactures and sells polyolefin catalysts. such as styrene monomer, acetyls, and ethylene hydrotreating and coking capacity positions us More than 280 polyolefin lines around the world LyondellBasell is offering a new range of oxide and derivatives. We are the world’s second well in a market with increasingly stricter sulfur utilize LyondellBasell-licensed technology polymers called Circulen and Circulen Plus largest producer of propylene oxide and oxyfuels. regulations. representing more than 50 million tons of annual made from renewable raw materials such production capacity. as cooking and vegetable oil waste. With the same high-quality properties as virgin plastics require, as well as regulatory approvals, it’s a perfect solution for sustainable food packaging, films, toys and cosmetics. Key Advantages Key Advantages Key Advantages

MOLECULAR RECYCLING Leading proprietary technologies Capability to process diverse crude Industry leading polyolefin process LyondellBasell is further developing its Diversity and linkage of our integrated mix technologies proprietary chemical recycling MoReTec product portfolio Strategic location on the Gulf Coast Leading portfolio of polyolefin catalysts technology, which has the potential to take Access to low cost natural gas Capable of meeting the Tier III sulfur mixed plastics waste down to the molecular specification level to become a feedstock in creating new polymers. The company has built a pilot plant Selected Products Selected Products Selected Products at its research center in Ferrara, Italy with the aim of optimizing the technology towards Propylene oxide Gasoline Process licensing commercial scale. Styrene monomer Ultra low-sulfur diesel Catalysts sales Propylene glycols and ethers Jet fuel Technology services Methanol and acetyls Aromatics RECYCLED COMPOUNDS TBA intermediates These materials are based on a network of Ethylene oxide recyclers used to source high quality recycled Ethylene glycols and ethers raw materials. The range includes post- Oxygenated fuels consumer and post-industrial grades of filled and unfilled PP, PE, PS, PA, ABS, PC/ABS, End Uses End Uses End Uses and PBT/PET complementing the Advanced Polymer Solutions portfolio and satisfying ❚ Insulation ❚ Consumer ❚ Automotive fuels ❚ Polyolefin and chemical our customers varied requirements. The ❚ Home products ❚ Aviation fuels manufacturers LyondellBasell reputation for quality materials furnishings ❚ Coatings ❚ Heating oil will guarantee that you will benefit from ❚ Adhesives ❚ Fuel additives ❚ Oils ❚ Automotive performance recycled materials.

12 13 Market Overview Oil Field Services Aerospace Agriculture Pipe Our products are used in a wide range Our carbon fiber and fiberglass- Our products make irrigation more efficient, reducing water Our products make pipes that are of on shore and off shore services reinforced vinyl ester, epoxy and leakage. They are also used for greenhouse structures and lighter and more durable; making include diversion and fracking phenolic materials are used for stretch wrap packaging. Our fiberglass-reinforced product installation faster and easier, allow technologies from specialty powders to secondary and interior aircraft range improves safety and performance for heavy agricultural for safe transport of water and gas, structural components requiring high structures which are lightweight and equipment. Our rotomolding powders provide strong, tough, as well as for modern solutions for heat and pressure resistance including have flame retardant properties. durable and lightweight solutions for farming machinery. plumbing, heating and cooling. frack plugs, frack balls, centralizers, pipe spacers thermal insulation pipe liners and buoyancy solutions. Textiles Our products are used Renewable Energy in a diverse set of textile applications ranging Technologies from geo-textiles which Our products make stabilize our roads to coatings for wind non-woven fabrics turbines that reduce drag which help to keep the and extend blade life, and baby’s skin dry. Offering create wire and cable light-weight fabrics with casings that conduct high loft and power and secure solar transmitting moisture panels. Our products also they are used also for enhance through bi-polar sanitary products. plate technology energy storage and transfer in back flow batteries and fuel cells.

Packaging Automotive Our food packaging products make plastic Our products are used in high films, and rigid and flexible thin packaging performance fuel systems and to keep food safe and fresh for longer, applications making car bumpers, reducing food waste. Our products for dashboards and trims lighter and industrial packaging with their excellent more fuel-efficient. property profiles make jerry cans, drums and IBCs safe for the transport of goods by road, rail, sea and air to protect filling as well as our environment. Electronics / Appliances Healthcare Building and Construction Our flame-retardant products are used for connectors, in cable Our products are used in gloves, Our products make waterproof insulation and as protective covers syringes, IV bags, hand sanitizer membranes for roofing and civil for electronic components and and medicine packaging, ensuring engineering as well as polystyrene and appliances. While our polypropylene sterile and sanitized supplies, as polyurethane insulation foam for walls, compounds create housings and well as in structural applications roofs and floors; conserving energy for fans for appliances, our engineered involving prosthetic feet and heating and cooling buildings. Our polymers make strong casings for medical cots. products are used in HVAC, under floor power tools. heatings, man hole covers, and various 14 other infrastructure components.15 LONDON 4th Floor, One Vine Street London W1J 0AH Tel: +44 207 220 2600

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