Morris had assumed responsibility for the Merseyside Works only 12 months previously, following a rapid from the entry position of shift engineer nine years before. When she assumed responsibility, she undertook a detailed review of the operations and discovered significant opportunities for improvement in polypropylene production. Some of those opportunities stemmed from the deferral of maintenance over the preceding five years. In an effort the operating results of Merseyside Works, the previous manager had limited capital expenditures to only the most essential. Now what previously had been routine and defer was becoming essential. Other opportunities stemmed from correcting the antiquated plant design in ways that would save energy and improve the process flow :( 1) relocating and modernizing tank car unloading areas, which would enable the process flow to be streamlined; (2) refurbish the polymerization tank to achieve higher pressures and thus greater throughput; and (3) renovating the compounding plant to increase extrusion throughput and obtain energy savings.