SolVin VCM and PVC Plants Will Be Relocated to Egypt

SolVin (Brussels) says it has agreed to sell two mothballed plants located at Ludwigshafen, formerly owned by BASF, to Trust Chemical Industries (TCI; Port Said, Egypt) for relocation to Port Said. The units are designed to produce 160,000 m.t./year of vinyl chloride monomer and 180,000 m.t./year of polyvinyl chloride, and were closed at the end of 2005. TCI is being acquired by Chemplast Sanmar (Chennai, India) from Egyptian businessman Islail M. Ismail. It operates a chlor-alkali complex at Port Said with capacity for 200,000 m.t./year of caustic soda and is...

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