(prw) -- Fiorenzo Sartor, an Italian entrepreneur, has filed a ┬200m lawsuit against UK-based chemical company Ineos over the sale of a PVC plant.
Sartor bought Ineos Vinyls in 2009 but the plant went into special administration in July, as an attempt to find a solution to its financial crisis. Vinyls Italia had been struggling with a debt of some ┬80m that it owes to energy and chemicals giant Eni for the supply of ethylene and dichloroethane from its Polimeri and Syndial subsidiaries.
According to news reports, Sartor had hoped to revamp the plant but was dependant on Ineos Chlor supplying raw materials at discounted prices for 30 months after the sale. The supply agreement was reportedly not honoured.
MRCMRC Reference
Ineos is a petrochemical group.
In Russia Ineos's interests are represented by Ineos Polyolefins and IneosChlorVinyls.
The share in the Russian market in 2008:
PVC - 4.5%;
polyethylene - 1.9%
(HDPE - 2.8%, LDPE - 1.2%);
polypropylene - 1.4%
(PP-random - 22.1%, PP-impact - 2.0%);
polystyrene - 0.9%.
Imports by polymers processing technologies:
profile extrusion;
pipe extrusion;
film extrusion;
injection molding.