EVC to Take Over Schkopau PVC In Agreement with Dow Chemical

Chemical Market Reporter, March, 1998 by MILMO, SEAN

EVC plan is to develop worldscale PVC units across Europe. EVC INTERNATIONAL, Europe's largest PVC producer, plans to take over a 125,000-metric-ton-a-year PVC plant at Schkopau, eastern Germany, from Buna Sow Leuna with the aim of building a new 330,000-ton replacement unit. The companies have reached a preliminary agreement on the acquisition and construction of the new plant, which is expected to be finalized by the end of this month.

BSL, an 80 percent owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical, is also planning to double a vinyl chloride monomer plant on the site to 330,000 tons. Both the new PVC plant and the expanded VCM unit are scheduled to start partial operations in 2000, coming fully on stream by 2002. Around 280,000 tons of the new PVC unit will be...

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