The businesses of INOVYN and INEOS Compounds have this week hosted a visit from North East Labour MEP Paul Brannen at their shared site at Newton Aycliffe.
The visit coincided with a week away from Brussels for all MEP’s known as their “constituency week”. The visit was organised as part of a fact finding exercise to demonstrate the importance of manufacturing in the North East, with particular emphasis on a European-wide voluntary initiative across the whole of the PVC industry known as VinylPlus.
The Newton Aycliffe site operates two distinct businesses; INOVYN and INEOS Compounds. INOVYN is a newly created Joint Venture between INEOS and SOLVAY that produces PVC resins for a wide range of applications including pipes, profiles, cables and flooring. The INOVYN operations at Newton Aycliffe are strategically important as the only remaining site that produces suspension PVC in the UK, having been in continuous operation since 1947.
INEOS Compounds has made significant investments in its operations at Newton Aycliffe during 2015. Each year, INEOS produces thousands of PVC formulations at the Site, known as PVC compounds, under a multitude of colour combinations. It has 4 production halls, 19 compounding lines and a dedicated unit for the production of exceptionally high quality grade PVC for use in life-saving medical device applications.
Commenting on the site visit, Mr Brannen said: “It was really interesting to hear about the history of the Site and good to see that it is still going strong today.
“I heard how the plant has recently received a €5m investment and created 35 jobs. It is a North East success story and produces so much PVC that there’s a good chance that 1 in every 3 of all PVC window frames produced in the UK will be based on resin supplied from Newton Aycliffe.
“It was also positive to hear the good work going on to improve environmental sustainability, such as increased reuse and recycling of materials.”
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