Oil tanks, plastic bags and more
VESTOLEN®
VESTOLEN® is the brand name introduced into the polymer sector by the former Hüls AG for polyolefins, also known as polyethylene and polypropylene. The name is made up of the medieval territory designation “Vest“ Recklinghausen and “olen“ for polypropylene and polyethylene. Hüls AG inherited the polymer sector from the firms that succeeded I.G. Farbenindustrie AG - Bayer AG, BASF AG and Hoechst AG dye works. They were created from the demerger of I.G. Farben after 1945.
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Via the mining company Hibernia AG, which held 25% of the shares in Hüls, the company acquired the highly productive Ziegler patents which made possible non-pressurized, oil-based manufacture of polyethelene. In order to manufacture and market VESTOLEN®, Hibernia AG and Hüls AG entered into a joint venture, VESTOLEN GmbH, in the mid-1950s.
VESTOLEN GmbH was dissolved when Hüls became the Chemicals Division of VEBA in 1979. Production and marketing were combined in one Hüls business unit. In the course of a portfolio consolidation, the VESTOLEN® product range was hived off again and in 1993 it was launched as the newly-founded VESTOLEN GmbH, which today belongs to SABIC (Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation).
VESTOLEN® is the brand name for a group of polymers which are used in almost every area of everyday life. They are especially used for packing and transport containers for domestic and industrial purposes. |
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Beverage bottles and shopping bags are made out of them, as are petrol cans and heating oil tanks. They can be found in the dashboards of cars and in the housings of many household appliances.
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