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Explainer: Here’s what to know as Shell’s new plant in Beaver County nears completion

By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

WPXI - Shell Plant Views of the Shell Polmyers Plant in Beaver County from March 2022. PAUL J. GOUGH/PBT (PAUL J. GOUGH/Pittsburgh Business Times )

By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — After more than a decade in development, the Shell Polymers petrochemical plant in Beaver County is poised to begin producing plastics products any day now.

The company has said for months that it expected to begin commercial production sometime by the end of the year and possibly the early fall, which looks more likely now that the plant and its components have or soon will have completed the requisite safety checks.

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