Axiall

The Axiall Corporation is a manufacturer and marketer of chlorovinyls (caustic soda, chlorine, VCM, EDC, PVC resins, PVC rigid and flexible compounds) and aromatics (acetone, cumene, phenol).[1] With the acquisition of Royal Group Technologies the company is now also a major producer of building materials ranging from piping and siding to window profiles, decking, and fencing.

Axiall Corporation
Subsidiary
IndustryChemical
PredecessorGeorgia Gulf Corporation
Founded2013
FounderTing Tsung Chao
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
,
USA
Key people
James Chao(Chairman)
Revenue US$ 8.6 billion(2018)
Number of employees
9,500
ParentWestlake Chemical
Websitewww.axiall.com

The company operates 47 locations in numerous states such as Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Michigan, Tennessee, and Texas, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. As of November, 2007 the company employed 6,214 full-time individuals.[2]

The Georgia Gulf Corp. became the Axiall Corp. with the completion of its $2 billion acquisition of PPG Industries Inc.'s chlor-alkali and derivatives business in 2013. In 2014, Axiall entered a joint venture with Shriram Polytech India, forming Shriram Axiall. The two companies partnered together "to provide a technological thrust to the PVC offering for different industries".[3]

Westlake Chemical Corporation acquired Axiall Corporation on August 31, 2016. The combined company became the third-largest chlor-alkali producer and the second-largest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) producer in North America.

Notes and references
  2. Georgia Golf Corporation official website- About Us Archived July 31, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, gcc.com.
  3. Bureau, BS B2B (2014-02-08). "DCM Shriram forms JV with US-based Axiall for polymer compounding". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
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  1. https://www.westlake.com/newsroom/article?reqid=2198561
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