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Shell has been serving its chemicals customers for more than 90 years. Using our key differentiators of world-scale assets, market access, proprietary technology, and advantaged feedstocks, we are developing and delivering a range of products and sustainable chemicals our customers need today, and in the future.

Chemicals are the building blocks of the products society relies on every day. At Shell we make and supply base, intermediate and performance chemicals to approximately 1000 industrial customers worldwide. Our customers use our chemicals to make consumer goods 鈥� from smartphones to textiles and cleaning products 鈥� as well as products found in factories, constructions, and hospitals 鈥� like pipes, windows, and medical equipment.

Chemicals are also an enabler of the energy transition and are used in materials to build wind turbines and solar panels, home insulation and lightweight transportation. Chemicals help society decarbonize and lower emissions.

As living standards improve; consumers are buying their first refrigerator, car or smartphone. Businesses, schools and hospitals are investing in modern equipment, and many more in society are making choices based on sustainability. Shell is growing its chemicals business to meet this increasing demand.

Through the transformation of our assets we are well positioned to serve our customers鈥� changing needs and work together to transition to a lower carbon and sustainable future.

Moving to net-zero-emissions

Many end products made from chemicals can help tackle climate change. But the industrial process used to make the chemicals creates carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. Our ambition at Shell is to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 in step with society, and chemicals has a part to play. We are looking at four main areas in our production: Firstly, each of our chemical plants is improving energy efficiency, through investing in things like heat and gas recovery systems, hybrid boilers and new catalysts. Secondly, our production sites are increasingly using lower-carbon energy sources, which Shell鈥檚 Renewables and Energy Solutions business is playing a leading role in developing. Thirdly, we are exploring carbon capture and storage (CCS) options, to capture the CO₂ emissions our facilities produce. And lastly, we are developing alternative feedstocks for making our chemicals, such as biomass and plastic waste.

Tackling plastic waste

Shell, along with many others, is concerned about global plastic waste. In places where waste management infrastructure or plastic waste is not managed appropriately, it can end up as litter. Plastics don鈥檛 belong in our oceans, rivers or landscapes; and industry, governments and customers need to work together to address this issue.

Shell supports the need for improved circularity of global plastics markets - encouraging reduce, reuse and recycle, to mitigate the release of plastic into the environment, and we are investing, innovating and collaborating throughout the plastic waste value chain to find lasting solutions.

• Learn more on how Shell is tackling plastic waste: www.shell.com/plasticwaste

Technology and digitalization

Innovation and technology have long been strengths of ours. We have an enviable track record in developing and licensing technologies that produce chemicals with less energy, less waste and better yields. This deep expertise, along with our truly collaborative approach, gives us confidence that we can unlock the challenges facing the chemicals industry, particularly when it comes to sustainability. Right now, Shell scientists, researchers and engineers are working to bring our more sustainable process for making polycarbonate to commercial scale. They are developing plastic waste and biomass as alternative feedstocks for making our chemicals. And working on using renewable electricity to heat steam cracker furnaces that are central to chemicals production.

Digitalisation offers our chemicals business exciting opportunities 鈥� from new ways to understand and engage with our customers and suppliers, to new business models and ways of working. In our production plants, data platforms and digital technologies are already boosting safety, productivity, optimisation of units and availability of our chemicals. We are using mobile tools to manage information in the field, models to mimic real plant dynamics and predictive analytics to detect the early signs of problems. Data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, drones, sensors and 3D-printing are transforming our operations.

Supporting our neighbours

Making chemicals is an industrial process, but it is also a people business. The people who work at our chemical plants also belong to local communities. We talk with and listen to our neighbours through community panels, open days, newsletters and social media. We employ local businesses in our supply chains. We inspire local school children to be the scientists and engineers of tomorrow, and we work with local students to boost their skills and confidence for employment. And we are proud to support emergency services and first responders, to partner on local environmental projects and to volunteer to raise money or awareness for local causes.

1. Chemicals products portfolio

Countless products that we all use every day in our homes, our cars, at work or while we relax owe their beginnings to the petrochemical 鈥榖uilding blocks鈥� we manufacture and supply to our industrial customers.

2. Manufacturing locations

Shell chemicals companies have a global manufacturing base, with some assets operated by Shell chemicals companies, some by other Shell Group companies, and others by joint ventures.

3. Our People

Know more about the Shell Chemicals and Products Leadership Team.

4. History of Shell Chemicals

Know more about the history Shell Chemicals.