2016
Welvic has a current manufacturing capacity of over 20,000 tonnes per annum
and offers four lines of PVC compound and an additional line of dry blend
powders for use by pipe and plastic film manufacturers.
豪州の塩ビ生産ゼロに 唯一メーカー撤退 アジア需給に変化も
オーストラリアの塩化ビニル樹脂（ＰＶＣ）の生産がなくなった。１社供給体制だったが、収益性や今後の展望を勘案して事業撤退を決めたようだ。これまでは年６万トン程度の輸入が行われていたが、国内生産が断たれたことで輸入品の市場が広がる。今年に大幅な能力増強が行われたインドネシアあたりから玉が向かえば、アジアの輸出市場における供給バランスが変化していく可能性もある。
February 2016
Australian Vinyls ceases PVC resin manufacturing
Australian Vinyls (AV) ceased polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin manufacturing at
its Laverton plant earlier this month following the conversion of its final VCM
shipment.
The decision to close the manufacturing plant came following a strategic review
of the financial performance of, and outlook for, AV’s PVC business in
increasingly difficult conditions.
Several months of plant decommissioning and associated works are now underway
and are expected to be completed in late 2016.
September 2015
Australian Vinyls to close PVC resin manufacturing plant
Australian Vinyls (AV) will cease manufacturing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin at its plant in Laverton, Victoria.
The decision comes following a strategic review of the financial performance of, and outlook for, AV’s PVC business in increasingly difficult conditions.
A global oversupply of PVC resin leading to depressed local pricing, increasing imported raw material and local costs, and a shrinking Australian market have all contributed to recent operating losses.
Despite a lower Australian dollar, forecast increases in pricing for vinyl chloride monomer (VCM – the key raw material required to make PVC resin) and depressed PVC pricing mean that AV would continue to operate at a loss for the foreseeable future, a situation which is clearly not sustainable.
As a result, AV will cease manufacturing following the conversion of its final VCM shipment, which is expected to arrive later this year.
With this in mind, we would expect continuous production to cease in early 2016. This is then expected to be followed by several months of plant decommissioning and associated works.
While it’s clear that local PVC resin manufacturing is no longer economically viable, AV is working with customers to assess whether it could sustainably continue as an importer of PVC resin, and we expect to have reached a decision on this in the next month.
Whatever the outcome might be of the import option, AV will be working with customers on a transition away from locally-manufactured PVC as it moves towards the end of local PVC resin manufacturing.
AV’s commitment to safety, reliability and customer service remains as important as ever as it continues to manufacture through to closure.
We will be consulting with our employees, and continuing to keep our customers, contractors and suppliers up-to-date throughout the coming months.
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Australian Vinyls Corporation and ModWood
Technologies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of CSBP Limited.
CSBP Limited, its subsidiaries and joint ventures form the Chemicals and
Fertilisers business units of Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy and Fertilisers,
a division of Wesfarmers Limited.
CSBP Limited is a major manufacturer and supplier of chemicals, fertilisers and related services to the mining, mineral processing, industrial and agricultural sectors.
Products:
Ammonia / ammonium nitrate、Sodium cyanide（Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd 金採掘用）、Fertilisers、PVC resin & caustic soda、Wood-plastic composites（ModWood Technologies ）、Industrial chemicals
Australian Vinyls was established on 1 August 1997 through the merger of
Australia's two vinyl resin producers at that time, ICI Australia (now
Orica) and Auseon.
In February 2002, the company closed the smaller, older resin plant it had
operated at the Altona Chemical Complex and its shareholders sold the
company to a management buy-in consortium, AVC Holdings.
In September 2007 CSBP Limited purchased AVC Holdings.
Annual Australian PVC consumption is over 225,000 tonnes. This calculation includes the Australian consumption of local PVC resin, resin imports and recycled PVC.
2016
Welvic has a current manufacturing capacity of over 20,000 tonnes per annum and offers four lines of PVC compound and an additional line of dry blend powders for use by pipe and plastic film manufacturers.
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Australian Vinyls
Corporation
http://www.chemlink.com.au/altona.htm
The Australian
Vinyls Corporation was formed in May 1997 comprising Orica (former ICI
Australia) 62.6 per cent and the former Auseon 37.4 per cent
(owned by the large US-based Geon Corporation and before that
BFGoodrich). (The
Geon Company is one of the largest suppliers of PVC resins in
North America and is the world's largest provider of PVC
compounds. Headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio, The Geon Company and
its subsidiaries have manufacturing plants in the United States,
Canada and Australia and joint ventures in Europe and Southeast
Asia.) The Geon interest was later acquired by US PolyOne Corp.
The shareholding is in proportion to their production capacities
of Auseon's
90 000 tpa at Altona and 140 000 tpa at ICI's Laverton plant. Both operations import
vinyl chloride monomer, which is a halocarbon trucked from
Geelong conveyed and stored in special vessels at Altona (Geon's
former plant) and at ICI's operation at Laverton. It supplies
around 90 per cent of the Australian market. In 1998, Australian
Vinyls achieved a 26 per cent return on assets.
In February 2001, AVC was sold for one-third its book value at just A$40m to a consortium led by
its former CEO Mr Murray Winstanley, and Kerry Packer's
investment trust CPH Investment. (Note Kerry Packer's investment in
Huntsman Corporation. The sale did not include AVC's compound
business that represents about one-third of the business. The Altona plant will close (with loss of 44 jobs)
with production concentrated at the Laverton North plant.
Following the sale, the Resins and Specialty Products businesses
will continue to operate as Australian Vinyls Corporation
Limited. Orica
and PolyOne will retain the PVC Compounds business, including production
facilities at Mentone, Flemington and Deer Park which will
operate as Welvic
Australia Pty Ltd.
Australian Vinyls Corporation
Australian Vinyls
Corporation has the capacity to produce 140,000 tonnes annually
of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin at its Laverton plant, to the
west of Melbourne in Victoria.
We manufacture a range of PVC resin grades suitable for all
significant applications in Australia.
The essential raw material for PVC production, vinyl chloride
monomer (VCM), is shipped to Corio, Victoria from overseas. From Corio, road tankers
transport the liquid VCM to storage tanks at Laverton.
AV produces the polymer PVC by the suspension polymerisation
process. During suspension polymerisation, the monomer VCM is
dispersed in water in a reactor (autoclave), together with an
initiator and a surfactant or suspension agent.
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Australian Vinyls Corporation and ModWood Technologies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of CSBP Limited.
AVC Holdings Pty Ltd is an Australian owned business with three operating divisions; Australian Vinyls Corporation Pty Ltd (PVC manufacture and marketing) AVC trading Pty Ltd (chemical import and trading) and ModWood Technologies Pty Ltd (wood plastic composites manufacture and marketing). AVC's primary areas of activity are in the manufacture and sale of products to companies servicing the building, construction and infrastructure markets.
CSBP Limited, its
subsidiaries and joint ventures form the Chemicals and
Fertilisers business units of Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy and
Fertilisers, a division of Wesfarmers Limited.
Australian Vinyls was established on 1 August 1997 through the
merger
of Australia's two vinyl resin producers at that time, ICI
Australia (now Orica) and Auseon.
In February 2002, the company closed the smaller, older resin
plant it had operated at the Altona Chemical
Complex and
its shareholders sold the company to a management buy-in
consortium, AVC Holdings.
In September 2007 CSBP Limited purchased AVC
Holdings.
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Australian Vinyls' resin manufacturing plant is located at Laverton in
Victoria,
Australia. The company also has offices in Brisbane, Queensland.
ModWood Technologies Pty Ltd has manufacturing operations located
in Campbellfield, Victoria.
The imported raw materials used in PVC resin production are
shipped to Corio, near Geelong, Victoria. They are then
transported by road to Laverton.
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Australian PVC Producers Announce Joint Venture
ICI Australia and Auseon Limited today announced their intention to form a joint venture to unite their Australian vinyls (PVC) business under one banner.
A new company, Australian Vinyls Corporation Limited, will be formed by the merging of Auseon's manufacturing facilities at Altona and Mentone with ICI Australia's recently expanded Laverton operations and its Deer Park Compounding Facility, all in Victoria. The ICI shareholding will be 62.6% of the joint venture.
The current annual capacity of the Laverton plant is 140,000 tonnes and the Altona plant 93,000 tonnes.
Subject to regulatory approval, the joint venture is forecast to commence operation by the end of July.
Auseon is wholly owned by The Geon Company of Ohio, USA