Lyondellbasell has completed a capacity expansion at its 771,000 tonne/year cracker in Corpus Christi, Texas. LBI has ramped up unit output by 363,000 tonnes/year, an increase of nearly 50% that brings nameplate capacity for the Corpus Christi cracker to around 1.1m tonnes/year. The company has pursued a strategy of investments in debottlenecking and increasing capacity at its US crackers instead of committing to the development of new units, adding around 907,000 tonnes/year of ethylene capacity.