Dr. Karl-Martin Schellerer new Chairman of ECVM and VinylPlus in Brussels

ECVM, the association of European PVC producers, and VinylPlus®, the sustainability program of the European PVC industry, have a new face at the top: In the future, Dr. Karl-Martin Schellerer, Managing Director of Westlake Vinnolit, will continue to drive the industry’s sustainability efforts at European level. He succeeds Stefan Sommer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vynova Holding. Dr. Karl-Martin Schellerer has already been intensively involved in the boards of ECVM and VinylPlus since 2018.

PVC is one of the world’s most widely used plastics with a wide range of durable applications such as window frames, pipes, flooring, cables or automotive interiors and numerous life-saving medical applications. PVC can be recycled multiple times. VinylPlus® aims to make the entire PVC value chain even more sustainable and further improve the recyclability of PVC products.