PVDF Solvay Solexis Expands Production Capacity in Tavaux

Brussels/Belgium – Solvay Solexis, a world leader in Polyvinyledene fluoride (PVDF), will increase the production capacity for this specialty fluoropolymer, which it markets under the Solef brand name.

Solvay Solexis has been very successful in providing consistent marketing and R&D efforts to develop new applications and increase Solef market penetration worldwide. The new capacity expansion will increase Solvay Solexis’ existing PVDF capacity at its plant in Tavaux (France) by some 30 percent and is scheduled to come on stream early in 2009. “The Solef capacity expansion is a new great, impressive example of the strength of Solvay’s Specialty Polymers organic growth potential. We have launched since the end of 2005 a significant number of new investments — PTFE fine powders and micro powders, Hyflon MFA/PFA, PFPE Fluorofluids, Polysulfones, PEEK, Ultrapolymers, PVDC barrier polymers — which are consolidating our world leadership in the field of the highest performance materials that address the most sophisticated and stringent requirements of key, fast-growing, industries,” said Vincenzo Morici, General Manager of the Specialty Polymers Strategic Business Unit, Solvay.

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