# ExxonMobil delays Baytown elastomer unit startup to 2023

ExxonMobil's $2 billion expansion at its Baytown, Texas site, including a 400 ktpa Vistamaxx polyolefin elastomers unit and a world-scale linear alpha olefins unit, is now expected to start up in 2023, delayed from 2022.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2022-09-05
- Where: Baytown, Texas, United States
- Value: $2.00B
- Starts operating: 2023
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 400 kilotonnes per annum of Vistamaxx polymer
- Products: Vistamaxx polyolefin elastomers, linear alpha olefins
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [ExxonMobil](https://endata.com/companies/1345.md)

## Sources

- [european-rubber-journal.com](https://www.european-rubber-journal.com/article/2092006/exxonmobil-400ktpa-elastomer-unit-now-to-start-up-in-2023), 2022-09-05: "ExxonMobil is now targeting next year for the commissioning of a $2 billion expansion project at its Baytown site."

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