The European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM) and VinylPlus, the sustainability program of the European PVC industry, have a new face at the helm: In the future, Dr. Karl-Martin Schellerer, Managing Director of Westlake Vinnolit, will continue to drive the industry’s sustainability efforts at European level, said Westlakevinnolit.
He succeeds Stefan Sommer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vynova Holding. Dr. Karl-Martin Schellerer has already been heavily involved in the boards of ECVM and VinylPlus since 2018.
PVC is one of the world’s most widely used plastics with a wide range of durable applications such as window frames, pipes, flooring, cables or automotive interior and a number of life-saving medical applications. PVC can be recycled multiple times. VinylPlus aims to make the entire PVC value chain even more sustainable and further improve the circularity of PVC products.
We remind, Westlake Vinnolit continues to expand its lower-carbon GreenVin product line: Effective immediately, the company also offers GreenVin bio-attributed PVC based on renewable ethylene. Westlake Vinnolit’s lower-carbon GreenVin® product line continues to expand: in addition to GreenVin® PVC, with approximately 25% CO2 savings through the use of renewable electricity (Guarantees of Origin with quality label) in the Westlake Vinnolit production chain, GreenVin bio-attributed PVC is now also available. GreenVin® bio-attributed PVC is produced with renewable electricity and ISCC PLUS-certified renewable ethylene from biomass. The CO2 savings of GreenVin® bio-attributed PVC is about 90%, compared to conventionally produced Vinnolit PVC.
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