Build Me Up Buttercup – US Chlor-Vinyl Markets Compelling, Enables Westlake Specialty Growth

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Build Me Up Buttercup – US Chlor-Vinyl Markets Compelling, Enables Westlake Specialty Growth

Key Points:

• We discuss our positive view of the US Chlor-Vinyl market, and why it fits well into our global commodity chemical mega-cycle outlook. We provide a few insights from a Westlake investor event and other sector indicators.
• We highlight pertinent energy, chemical, and other corporate updates (e.g., Westlake, Shell, H.B. Fuller, Johnson Matthey, KBR, TPC Group, & others).
• We discuss relevant ESG items, ranging from Westlake’s efforts to cut GHG emissions to views on the UK Plastics tax. We flag our ESG research Power To The People – But Clean Energy, And Industry Wants It Too.
• We discuss numerous other pertinent chemical sector items in this report.

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