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s Global Footprint Company Location Capacity (t/y) Type CP Chem Cedar Bayou, Texas 48,000 low-vis CP Chem Pasadena, Texas 9,000 high-vis CP Chem Beringen, Belgium 63,000 low-vis Chemtura Elmira, Ont., Canada 16,000 high-vis Chemtura Ankerweg, Netherlands 15,000 high-vis ExxonMobil Chem. Gravenchon, France 60,000 low-vis ExxonMobil Chem. Beaumont, Texas 85,000 low-vis ExxonMobil Chem. Baytown, Texas 50,000 both Ineos Oligomers Feluy, Belgium 120,000 low-vis Ineos Oligomers La Porte, Texas 90,000 low-vis Naco Shanghai, China 15,000 high-vis Source: Chevron Phillips Chemical Low-vis operating rates are fairly elevated, and are expected to be above

95 percent ― if feedstock supplies are adequate. from a smaller base of global supply). There have been some recent high-vis expan- sions, including Chemtura in the Netherlands, Naco in China, and most emphatical- ly ExxonMobil Chemical in Baytown, Texas. Chevron Phillips Chemical estimates that

75 percent of PAO is currently used in transportation lubricants ― split roughly two-to-one between consumer and commercial products ― and the rest goes into in industri- al oils. For more proof of PAO'

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