MOSCOW (MRC) -- International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG) and Vynova Group announced the appointment of Christophe Andre as new President of Vynova Group, with effect from 1 September 2021, according to Bordeless.
Christophe Andre will succeed Stefan Sommer, who will retire as President of Vynova Group and assume the role of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vynova Holding.
Stefan Sommer (63) has held the role of President of Vynova Group since the company’s foundation on 1 August 2015. He will retire on 1 September 2021 and will join Vynova’s parent company ICIG on 1 January 2022 as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vynova Holding. Stefan Sommer will also continue to represent Vynova Group in key European PVC- and plastics-related industry associations such as VinylPlus, the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM) and PlasticsEurope. Until the end of 2021, he will support the Vynova Management Board in the transition to his successor.
Christophe Andre (50) holds engineering and economics master degrees from Telecom Paris and ESSEC as well as an MBA from INSEAD. He has held various international senior management positions at specialty chemicals manufacturer Rohm and Haas, where he served as European head of the Monomers and Adhesives business lines, and he has held the position of Managing Director at paper manufacturer Arjowiggins Graphic. In his last roles, Christophe Andre served at specialty chemicals company Arkema as Group President of the global Thiochemicals activities and, since 2016, as a member of Arkema’s Executive Committee in charge of the Advanced Materials business portfolio.
As MRC informed previously, in late October, 2020, European chlor-alkali and polyvinyl cloride (PVC) producer VYNOVA resumed operations at its PVC plant in Beek, the Netherlands. The producer was also preparing to restart production at its Mazingarbe plant in France then. PVC plants were then restarted after the return of the producer’s monomer vinyl cloride (VCM) unit in Tessenderlo, Belgium from a maintenance shutdown, which supplies feedstock to both PVC plants. Vynova’s Beek plant has a PVC production capacity of 225,000 tons/year, while the Mazingarbe plant can produce 250,000 tons/year of PVC. Meanwhile, the company’s Tessenderlo site produces 740,000 tons/year of VCM.
According to MRC's DataScope report, imports of suspension polyvinyl chloride (SPVC) into Russia reached 14,600 tonnes in the first five months of 2021, up by 48% year on year. At the same time, exports decreased by 10% year on year.
VYNOVA is a leading European PVC and chlor-alkali company. It operates production sites in five countries and has over 1,250 employees, realising an annual turnover of EUR1 billion. The company's products play a key role in manufacturing numerous industrial products and consumer goods that improve the quality of life. Established in 2015, VYNOVA is the chlor-vinyls platform of the International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG).
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