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Distribution Interoffice Communication From: Date: subject: Jim Rutledge June 11, 1987 Press Kit Updates We are revising and updating our current press kit and supplementary matlrials for distribution to key trade, business and financial media after the current SPO "quiet period" is over Please review the attached material for accuracy Your timely comments and suggestions will help assure an on-time Thanks for your input. Distribution RJA, JRB, HDG, TGG, CJM, CRM, (w/selected attachments): LRB, LAB, JDB, RAC, JAD, GGD, JAH, RRH, THH, PLJ, ELK, JJL, SKS, SFS, RWS, RRS, CMS, RES, RTF, HRF, JF, BEAL, REL, JBM, MRS, WJBV (w/all attachments): MSR, LAT, EAV Press Kit Reviewers (6/11/87): Management Bios individuals Board of Directors individuals, MSR, LAT, EAV Products and Manufacturing Locations (U.S.) RJA, JRB, LRB, RAC, JAD, RTF, HRF, JF, HDG, JAH, RRH, THH, ELK, BEAL, JBM, MSR RWS, RES, LAT, WJBV, EAV Simplified Feedstock and Product Flow Chart RJA, RTF, HRF, JAH, BEAL, MSR, RES, LAT, WJBV, EAV Product Facts RJA, RTF, HRF, JAH, PLJ, BEAL, CJM, CRM, MSR, SKS, RRS, CMS, RES, MRS, LAT WJBV, EAV Site Information Houston HQ: LAB, GGD, MSR, LAT, EAV Regional Sales Offices: JRB, MSR, LAT, EAV R&D Center: MSR, CMS, LAT, EAV Aberdeen: RTF, HRF, JF, MSR, SKS, RRS, RES, LAT, EAV Baltimore: RTF, PLJ, BEAL, MSR, RWS, LAT, WJBV, EAV Hammond: RTF, PLJ, BEAL, JBM, CJM, MSR, LAT, WJBV, EAV LCCP: RJA, JAD, RTF, JAH, THH, PLJ, BEAL, CJM, MSR, MRS, LAT, WJBV, EAV LAB: LRB, JAD, RTF, PLJ, BEAL, MSR, LAT, WJBV, EAV VCM: RJA, RAC, JAD, RTF, HRF, JAH, CRM, MSR, RES, LAT, EAV OKC: RTF, HRF, HDG, MSR, RRS, RES, LAT, EAV Premiere: GGD, HRF, RRH, MSR, SKS, RES, LAT, EAV Blane: GGD, HRF, ELK, MSR, SKS, RES, LAT, EAV Inti Subs: JRB, MSR, LAT, EAV A Brief History RJA, JRB, JDB, RTF, HRF, TGG, MSR, LAT, WJBV, EAV VISTA CHEMICAL COMPANY PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURING LOCATIONS (U.S.) Lake Charles Chemical Plant, Westlake, Louisiana Ethane Cracking Unit (665 million pounds per year capacity) E thylene ALFOL Alcohol Unit (235 million pounds per year capacity) Linear Primary Alcohols and Blends From C4 through C22 -f Plasticizer Range C$-C10 Surfactant Range C12-Cis Molex Unit (330 million pounds per year capacity) n-Paraffins C10I6 LPA Solvents ODC Drilling Fluid Base Oil ALFONIC Alcohols Ethoxylate Unit (55 million pounds per year capacity) Linear Primary Alcohol Ethoxylates Ethoxylates of Various Alcohol Blends & EO Levels Methyl Chloride Unit (115 million pounds per year capacity) Methyl Chloride CATAPAL Alumina Unit (42 million pounds per year capacity) Alumina Monohydrate Lake Charles VCM Plant, Westlake, Louisiana Vinyl Chloride Monomer (700 million pounds per year capacity) Lake Charles LAB Plant, Westlake, Louisiana NALKYLENE Detergent Alkylates (linear alkylbenzene) (150 million pounds per year capacity) Baltimore Chemical Plant, Baltimore, Maryland NALKYLENE Detergent Alkylate Unit (230 million pounds per year capacity) NALKYLENE Detergent AIkylates (linear alkylbenzene) Specialty Alkylates 20 and 22 Baume Muriatic Acid Hydrotrope Unit (13 million pounds per year capacity) Sodium Toluene Xylene Sulfonate (STXS) Hammond Premium Sulfonate Plant, Hammond, Indiana (70 million pounds per year capacity) Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonic Acids Sodium Neutralized Slurries Sodium Alcohol Ether Sulfate Ammonium Alcohol Ether Sulfate Aberdeen PVC Plant, Aberdeen, Mississippi Oklahoma City PVC Plant, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (combined resin and compound capacity: 865 million pounds per year) Polyvinyl Chloride Resins (Aberdeen and Oklahoma City) Polyvinyl Chloride Dryblends (Aberdeen) Polyvinyl Chloride Flexible Compounds (Aberdeen) Linear Phthalate Plasticizers (A berdeen) Blane Polymers, Mansfield, Massachusetts Polyvinyl Chloride Flexible Compounds (70 million pounds per year capacity) Premiere Polymers, Jeffersontown, Kentucky Polyvinyl Chloride Flexible Compounds (12 million pounds per year capacity) (Revised 6.87) T" " I v.'i- v- A VAB.0001177982 VISTA CHEMICAL COMPANY SITE INFORMATION Location: Major products: Feedstocks and fit into company's product chain: End-use products: Number of employees: Site acreage: Plant history: (Revised 6.87) Aberdeen PVC Plant Aberdeen, Mississippi Vista Polymers, a division of Vista Chemical Company, Aber deen PVC Plant, Highway 25, P.O. Box 91, Aberdeen, MS 39730. The company's Aberdeen facility has an annual capacity ofmore than 575 million pounds of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins and compounds. The Aberdeen plant also produces plasticizers. Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) arrives by rail from Vista Chem ical's Lake Charles VCM plant. ALFOL Alcohols are sent from the Lake Charles Chemical Plant. PVC products have a wide range of applications. Uses for PVC in the construction industry include plastic water pipe, electrical conduit, sheeting products, electrical wire and cable insulation, vinyl siding and window profiles. The plant has approximately 250 employees, of which about 175 are represented by the United Steelworkers of America. The plant is located on a 125-acre site (72 acres leased from the county) within the city limits of Aberdeen. The Aberdeen plant was built by the Thompson Apex Company and came on stream in 1963. The company acquired the plant in 1964 and began expansion and modernization projects the follow ing year. Over the years, these projects have increased the capa city of the original plant nearly eight-fold. In 1970, an experimental large reactor was constructed at Aber deen to develop new technology for making PVC. This led to the large reactor process used at both the Aberdeen and Oklahoma City plants. The Aberdeen plant's sixty small reactors were shut down and replaced by large reactors in 1975. Additional large reactors were installed in 1978. The plant's capacity was in creased again in 1981 when newly designed reactors with larger capacity were completed. The plant originally had one flexible compound line and the plas ticizer unit. Today, following an extensive modernization pro gram, there are three flexible compound lines, one rigid dryblend unit and the plasticizer unit. Organization Bulletin Vista Chemical Company and its subsidiaries Houston, Texas April 21, 1987 Organization Bulletin No. 16 Effective Date: April 16, 1987 Ms. Joan S. Stone, Financial Accountant, Controllers was promoted to Supervisor, Accounts Payable/Receivable, replacing Ms. J. L. Lann who is resigning. Ms. Stone reports to Mr. P. C. Cain, Supervisor of General Accounting. A l' i-LM*