About Shell Polymers
Increase production efficiency and expand supply chain accessibility with Shell Polymers' industry experience and advanced technologies. Our unrivaled customer experience promotes innovation for plastics converters and manufacturers developing polyethylene products.
Disrupting the Polyethylene Industry with a Learners Mindset
One of the key ways that Shell Polymers is disrupting the industry is through the culture we are striving to create. And, it’s what will ultimately make the most difference to our customers. Whether it’s being genuinely curious, never settling, and being brave enough to challenge the status quo, Shell Polymers is striving to create an entrepreneurial culture within our business by embracing the learners mindset as we continue to design systems and build processes that put people first. This entrepreneurial spirit, combined with the financial backing and technological expertise of Royal Dutch Shell, means we are empowered to make bold moves to Break the Mold in the polyethylene industry.
Shell Polymers is taking a learner’s mindset to building its business by:
- Bringing in experts from across the industry, from many different companies, all with strong polymer backgrounds who bring different perspectives to the team.
- Working with numerous external companies, a variety of different consultants who bring lots of different ideas and experiences.
- Encouraging a diverse company culture by deliberately bringing in people from different backgrounds, industries, and varying levels of experience.
Backed by an in-depth understanding of converter challenges, we optimize customer experiences by streamlining supply and logistics management from order to delivery by leveraging advanced technology, embracing diverse perspectives, and implementing forward-thinking processes.
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Why Collaborate with Shell Polymers?
Backed By 1000+ Hours of Converter Research
Backed By 1000+ Hours of Converter Research
Instead of doing what converters expect from a polyethylene supplier, we’re rewriting the polymer playbook with a customer-centric business model driven by diverse PE expertise and cutting-edge technology. To better understand our customers, Shell Polymers took the time to understand their audience by spending over 2 years and 1,000+ hours surveying converters to identify and implement processes
Dedication to Diversity and Inclusion
Dedication to Diversity and Inclusion
Respect is another core value of the Shell Polymers team. And, more than ever, we have seen the importance of having conversations around equality and discrimination.
Our commitment to building a wonderful, diverse team, with a variety of backgrounds and experience must be more than just about recruitment. Our leadership team is dedicated to making sure that our employees can bring their best and whole self to work every day – and the same is true for the suppliers we deal with and the customers we serve. Representation matters, and we are proactively building a team and supplier network that shares our conviction.
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Innovative Polyethylene Production Processes
Innovative Polyethylene Production Processes
Shell Polymers recognizes the importance of finding creative ways to produce polyethylene efficiently while reducing disruptions, which is why the new Monaca plant will feature smart inspection technology, automated on-site and off-site inventory tracking capabilities, and in-house technology expertise to foster collaborative experimentation. The new plant’s application hall will allow converters and manufacturers to troubleshoot machine problems, design innovative polyethylene parts, and test new machinery and technologies
Our Rich History in the Chemicals Industry
Our Rich History in the Chemicals Industry
To fully understand Shell Polymers’ industry prowess, it’s important to know Shell’s level of knowledge in the chemicals space. Founded in 1929, Shell Polymers’ parent company, Shell Chemicals’, has been producing a range of base chemicals and intermediate chemicals such as ethylene, propylene, solvents, detergent alcohols, ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, and more for decades.
While our plant may be new, our polyethylene expertise is not. Shell Polymers has dedicated time and resources analyzing the top challenges that plastics converters face, building a team of experts to best support manufacturers, and developing relationships with converters that encourage streamlined production processes and greater supply chain transparency.
PE Plant Location Enhances Customer Experience
Shell Polymers’ new Pennsylvania-based polyethylene plant is expected to create jobs for the local community and will provide customers with a reliable and efficient source of PE. Advantages of the new plant include:
- Advanced, real-time logistics capabilities
- Reliable and varied polyethylene supply
- Dedicated account teams, regardless of company size
EMMA Bringing Diversity to the Industry
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Title: Bringing Diversity to the Industry
Duration: 1:17 minutes
Description:
A short video of Emma Lewis speaking about Shell Polymers diverse workforce.
Diversity in the Industry Transcript
[Cheerful Background music plays. Emma Lewis, speaking to camera]
So the industry is changing. There is quite a large span, you know, we have a lot of individuals that are sort of like they've been in the industry a long time, they’re very experienced. And then we have a gap; and we have a lot of younger people, and we’re seeing that reflected both in our workforce but also in the customer. And ultimately we want to be able to mirror, you know, what the customer does. I also think that creativity that comes from diversity is really important. So, we have people in my team who have different upbringings, they come from different countries, they’ve had different work experiences. All of those things bring a hugely different perspective to what we are trying to do, and they really drive creative problem solutions and really just generate a much, much better product.
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Creative Problem Solving
That’s one way we Break the Mold.
EMMA Entrepreneurial Approach
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Title: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Duration: 1:41 minutes
Description:
A short video of Emma Lewis speaking about Shell Polymers learner’s mindset to building a business.
Entrepreneurial Approach Transcript
[Cheerful Background music plays. Emma Lewis, speaking to camera]
So, we are trying to create an entrepreneurial culture inside Shell, which is obviously a huge multinational corporation. The benefit to a customer of us being able to mix that entrepreneurial spirit with the backing of a company like Shell, is that we’re able to be nimble—but we’re able to do big and bold things because we have that financial backing and that experience.
The first thing that we are doing is we’re bringing in a lot of experts from across the industry, from many different companies, all with strong polymer backgrounds who bring different perspectives to the team.
The second thing, though, is we are also working with a lot of external companies, a variety of different consultants who bring lots of different ideas and experiences.
And then the third is one thing you have to do in an entrepreneurial culture is really cultivate a beginner’s mindset. We’ve been very deliberate about bringing people in who either come from very different industries or don’t have a lot of industry experience. They are really able to ask the questions, “Why?” Why are things the way that they are and they bring a lot of challenges and ultimately, it’s through that challenge that we drive the change.
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Driving Industry Change
That’s one way we Break the Mold.