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- Westlake Corporation Westlake Corporation is a global diversified industrial company that manufactures and supplies petrochemicals, polymers, and fabricated building products essential to consumer and industrial markets including housing and infrastructure, packaging and healthcare, automotive, and consumer goods. Founded in 1986 by T. T. Chao and headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company operates two primary segments—Performance & Essential Materials and Housing & Infrastructure Products—with facilities across North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions; it employs approximately 16,000 people worldwide. Its core products and services encompass olefins, vinyl chemicals such as chlorine and caustic soda, polyethylene including low-density polyethylene, epoxies, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins and compounds, PVC pipes and fittings for municipal water, sewer, plumbing, irrigation, and mining applications, residential siding, architectural stone veneer, cement, clay roofing, metal and polymer composite roofing, trim and moulding, custom compounds for wire and cable, medical devices, consumer products, and automotive uses, as well as materials for food packaging, medical tubing and bags, soaps, detergents, car interiors, fashion, toys, shoes, furniture, electronics, windows, outdoor living, pool liners, vinyl records, insulation tapes, and garden edging from recycled polymers. In August 2025, Westlake Corporation announced an agreement to acquire the global compounding solutions businesses of Portugal-based ACI/Perplastic Group, which produce specialty PVC, polyolefin, silicone, and thermoplastic rubber compounds for wire and cable sectors at facilities in Mexico, Portugal, Romania, and Tunisia, with the transaction expected to close in early 2026 pending regulatory approvals and customary conditions, thereby expanding its Housing & Infrastructure Products segment and integrating new technologies into Westlake Global Compounds.