Vestolit - PVC - Vestolit GmbH & Co. KG

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Data Quality in Commercial Databases
...cona, BASF, Targor, Elastogran, Röhm, Agomer, Hostalen etc. Unclassifiable Errors During the evaluation some errors were found which could not be classified or understood, even after lengthy consideration. In one database system, the entry Vestolit 1400 sw (PPE) (note: sw stands for black) was found. This would indicate a polyphenylene ether called Vestolit 1400 in black, made by Huls AG (not a typing error!). In fact, Vestolit is a registered trade mark of Vestolit GmbH (once a fully owned su...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...vin and Atofina, while those in the Netherlands and Finland were taken over by the world’s biggest PVC manufacturer, Shin-Etsu, which thereby became a new producer in Western Europe. Ineos acquired a majority holding in EVC. With the purchase of Vestolit and Vinnolit/Vintron by the investor group Harris/Candover and Advent, and the takeover of the film manufacturer Klöckner Pentaplast by Cinven, financial investors came on the scene, with the aim of actively influencing the necessary restructuri...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Quality Assurance: Comparison of Thermal Stability Measurement Processes for PVC
... from interlaboratory tests. The fact that this can be donescientifically is demonstrated by the independently performed interlaboratory test. THE AUTHORS KARL-HEINZ HAMSEN, born in 1954, is Manager Technical Service Dispersion Resin at Vestolit GmbH & Co. KG, Marl/Germany. Ralf Jaksch, born in 1961, is Laboratory Manager in the Technical Service Dispersion Resin at Vestolit. THOMAS Kolb, born in 1974, is Product Specialist for Ion Chromatography and Stability Measurements at Deutsche Metrohm G...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Set for Growth: Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...cts for PVC (see below) and the restructuring potential waiting to be tapped have also made the PVC sector attractive for private equity investors. Examples include Ineos Capital's investment in EVC, Candover/D. George Harris's investment in Vestolit and Advent International's holding in Vinnolit. The investment required for sustainable restructuring, however, cannot be achieved with today's margins. This, together with the high barriers to withdrawal, means that uneconomic facil...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...in May 2014 – conditional on the sale of a compensation package – and would take third place in the world capacity ranking. At the beginning of August 2014, the Mexican Mexichem S.A.B. de C.V., Tlalnepantla, Mexico, announced the sale of Vestolit GmbH, Marl, Germany, – conditional on antitrust approval. At the end of July 2014, the acquisition of Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG, Ismaning, Germany, was concluded by Westlake Chemical Corp., Houston, TX/USA. Westlake/Vinnolit is thus moving up into the top ...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...t significant parts of its business to meet the requirements of the EU Commission (see below).Following in 4th, 5th and 6th place are ChemChina (China National Chemical Corporation) and – newly – Mexichem, of Mexico, after the acquisition of Vestolit, and the US company Westlake, after the purchase of Vinnolit. The 7th to 10th places are held by OxyVinyls, CNSG, LG Chem and Axiall respectively. There will be a shake-up before the end of 2016 as Westlake, currently in 6th place, intends to compl...