Westlake Vinyls Inc

18 united states district court western district of kentucky paducah division civil action no.

Westlake vinyls inc. 5 17 cv 157 tbr 2018 wl 2437241 w d. Type event date penalty abatement type fta insp. According to s p global platts the shutdown idles 38 of westlake s u s. Westlake vinyls inc no.

The current dispute arises from the 2007 settlement agreement in which the parties agreed to resolve litigation related to environmental liabilities arising on or before july 31 2007 and to arbitrate the allocation of certain environmental costs. Liquid caustic soda 20 membrane grade. After that designation goodrich sold the plants to westlake in two separate transactions one in 1990 the other in 1997. Penalty and failure to abate event history.

In addition the company s chlor alkali capacity ranks second largest in the world. Vinyls westlake vinyl resin products are the key ingredients to making some of the world s most prevalent items including. Residential siding pipe and fittings for various water sewer and industrial applications pvc profiles for windows doors fence and decking along with films for various inflatables wallcovering tapes and roofing applications. Westlake chemical has approximately 9 400 employees and operates from 36 locations in north america 11 in europe and 6 in asia.

Vinyl chloride monomer production with a combined capacity of more than 952k metric tons year and 46 of the company s. Goodrich corp 518 f. 5 18 cv 182 tbr kemble smith plaintiff v. The company s pvc capacity ranks as second largest globally.

Goodrich and westlake executed asset transfer agreements requiring that 1 goodrich indemnify westlake for environmental costs. Westlake s vinyls chemicals rank as the number one global leader in specialty pvc.