Article: Shin-Etsu Announces Completion of Shin-Etsu PVC's Expansion Project; Dutch Shin-Etsu Group Company's Total PVC Production Capacity has Increased to 450,000 Tons/year.

Tokyo, Japan, Sept 8, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. has announced that it has completed its expansion of the facilities of Shin-Etsu PVC B.V.,* in The Netherlands, the Shin-Etsu Group's European production and sales base for PVC, and full-scale operation has begun. This expansion increased the production capacity of Shin-Etsu PVC's Pernis Plant (near Rotterdam) from 350,000 to 450,000 tons/year, and it was completed earlier than the scheduled completion date of October 2006. The investment amount for this expansion was about 50 million Euros (about JPY 7.5 billion).

This plant expansion was carried out in anticipation of strong growing ...

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