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VESTOLIT® is the brand name introduced by the former Chemische Werke Hüls AG (Hüls Chemical Works) for polyvinyl chloride, which is better known by its abbreviation: PVC. VESTOLIT® comes from Vest Recklinghausen, a mediaeval territorial designation and "lit“, which is the traditional final syllable for PVC products of the I.G. Farben industrial group. In 1949 VESTOLIT® production started at the site in Marl. It was intended to change the factory’s manufacturing base, as British authorities had forbidden the production of Buna, a synthetic rubber.
In the course of changes made to the product portfolio for the Chemische Werke Hüls AG in 1995, the manufacture and marketing of VESTOLIT® was hived off in the independent company VESTOLIT GmbH & Co. KG. Marl is a fully integrated site for the production of VESTOLIT®, which means that all the intermediate products are manufactured in one factory. Marl has an annual capacity of around 350,000 tons, making it the biggest fully integrated PVC production facility in Europe.
Today, VESTOLIT® is supplied mainly to the construction and automotive sectors. VESTOLIT GmbH in Marl is the market leader in PVC window frames and for PVC in paste form for producing floor coverings, tarpaulin fabric and underbody coating for passenger vehicles.
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