Solvin - PVC - Solvay Specialty Polymers

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, General-purpose Plastics: Appearance Ever More Important
...the compression moulding process. By pigmenting the transparent compounds, it is possible to achieve coloured, transparent records, and even phosphorising variants are available. Another key topic is the recycling of PVC waste. Solvin presented a process called VinyLoop at K. The PVC recycled in this way is equivalent to virgin material. An initial facility has been constructed in Ferrara/Italy. This is designed to process cable insulation material in particular and has an annual capacity of 10...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...f sites, or even on the number of plants. It is only in recent years that the first plants were shut down. These measures focused on Italy, where the Ferrara (Solvay), Brindisi (EVC), Samarante (IGS) plants were closed. This year, plants in Antwerp (SolVin), Miranda del Ebro and Hernani (Atofina) were closed. However, there are still a large number of plants that are uneconomical because they are too small. Existing plants operating by the suspension process must now have a capacity of at least ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
... the most important consumer industry for PVC. Among suppliers, the processes of consolidation and restructuring have continued. As Shell/Akzo divested its PVC business, its operations in southern France were acquired by a joint venture comprising Solvin 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 Ves...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Set for Growth: Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...tern Europe, at 108kt/a, but China, in particular, has caught up, and the average plant capacity there has now risen from 70 to 105kt/a. The twenty leading producers worldwide include eight European companies, with no less than four of these (Solvay/Solvin, EVC, Atofina and Vinnolit) ranking among the Top 10 in the sector (Fig. 2). In North America, the five biggest producers account for 85% of capacity, while in Central and Western Europe the five biggest producers cover only 60% of capacity. N...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, The PVC Loop Closed
... Wietek plant in Nohfelden/Germany, which is used by the company Delphi of Wuppertal/Germany. This technology has not found widespread acceptance - presumably the costs are too high. A Dissolution Process with Economically Viable Prospects Solvay/SolVin has developed a new dissolution process (Vinyloop) aimed at yielding a more favourable cost-benefit ratio. The PVC scrap must be shredded so that it can be metered (Fig. 3). The maximum edge length is about 10 cm. The scrap material passes thro...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-08, Natural-fibre-reinforced Plastics: Considerable Potential for Improvement
...nsile and impact properties [1]. Marked improvements in the properties of biopolymers can be obtained by incorporating cellulose [2] or retted flax nanoparticles into the polymer matrix. For the production of imitation wood from highly filled WPC, SolVin GmbH & Co. KG, Rheinberg/Germany, believes that PVC is an exceptionally versatile basis, which considerably extends the scope of application for WPC because of its very good shrinkage and Vicat softening point values plus high rigidity. In addit...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...as closed down in 2007. Further measures already announced include: The closing of Aiscondel’s (Ercros) PVC production in Monzón, Spain, and replacement of its S-PVC capacity by a new line in Tarragona, Expansion of capacity at Solvin’s Jemeppe site to 75 kt of S-PVC by 2009, Construction of plants to produce 300 kt of S-PVC and 30 kt of E-PVC by 2010 in Kstovo, Russia, by Rusvinyl, a joint venture established by Solvin and Sibur, Construction of a 300 kiloton S-PVC ...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...cent times. Shin-Etsu Chemical, Tokyo/Japan, and Formosa Plastics Group, Taipei, Taiwan, still hold 1st and 2nd place in the capacity ranking. The new third place is held by Inovyn, which was formed as a merger of the PVC activities of Ineos and Solvin (Solvay). According to the original plans, Inovyn would even have moved into 2nd place, ahead of Formosa Plastics, however, it had to divest significant parts of its business to meet the requirements of the EU Commission (see below).Following in 4...