INEOS Styrolution donates face shields to hospitals

Aurora, Illinois-based INEOS Styrolution, which makes polymer products, including an ECO line with recycled content, has donated face shields to health care workers in the United States. The firm says it also has made a $10,000 donation to Chicago area food banks.

Sourcing supplies through its customer Primex Plastics Corp., INEOS Styrolution says it delivered the personal protection equipment (PPE) to workers in hospitals in New York City, Chicago and surrounding suburbs, and the Navajo Nation community in Arizona.

Carina Johannessen, a registered nurse at the Edward Hospital emergency room, in Naperville, Illinois, comments, “Thank you INEOS Styrolution so much for your generous donation in helping us stay safe and healthy at Edward Hospital. The community support is so very appreciated by us all. It is a difficult time for the front lines and knowing that our local companies have our backs (and our faces) means so much to us. Not only does it protect us, it provides peace of mind while we work.”

INEOS Styrolution’s Aurora headquarters also donated $10,000 to the Greater Chicago Food Depository and Northern Illinois Food Bank/

“No matter where our INEOS Styrolution teams are located around the globe, we always come together,” says Alexander Glück, president of INEOS Styrolution Americas LLC. “Through acts of community support and donations, we aim to help our frontline workers and vulnerable community members when they need it the most.”

INEOS Styrolution is a $5.6 billion global styrenics supplier, with a focus on styrene monomer, polystyrene, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) standard and what it calls styrenic specialties. The London-based firm, which has 3,600 employees globally, says it is “actively contributing to a circular economy” by investing in chemical recycling and by developing products such as Terluran ECO, which is available with up to 70 percent recycled content.