The founding partners

VinylPlus brings together the entire PVC industry chain, represented by its four founding members:

• ECVM (European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers), representing the 13 European PVC resin producing companies which account for almost 100% of the current total EU-27 PVC resin production. These businesses operate around 60 different plants spread over 35 sites and employ approximately 10,000 people.
• ESPA (European Stabilisers Producers Association), representing 11 companies which produce more than 98% of the stabilisers sold in Europe. They employ some 5,000 people.
• ECPI (European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates), representing the 7 major European plasticiser and intermediate producers that employ approximately 1,200 people in plasticiser production.
• EuPC (European Plastics Converters), representing close to 50,000 companies in Europe that produce over 45 million tonnes of plastics products of various types every year. EuPC estimates that around 21,000 of these businesses (many of which are SMEs), employing over half a million people, are involved in the conversion of PVC into final home and industrial products.