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UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION PVC CHRONOLOGY 1928 1933 1936 1937 1941 1942 1943 1943 1945 1946 1947 1954 1955 1957 1960 Started pilot plant production of vinyl chloride monomer and development of resins made from vinyl chloride South Charleston, West Virginia. Commercial production of vinyl chloride by alkali dehy drochlorination of ethylene dichloride and the manufacture of vinyl chloride resins by the solution polymerization process - South Charleston, West Virginia. Expanded solution polymerization resin plant - South Charleston, West Virginia. Commercial production of vinyl chloride resins by contin uous bulk polymerization - South Charleston, West VirginiaT Initiated production of vinyl chloride by thermal dehydro chlorination of ethylene dichloride - South Charleston. Initiated production of vinyl chloride by synthesis process using acetylene and hydrogen chloride. Built new continuous bulk polymerization plant for vinyl resins - South Charleston, West Virginia. Built new emulsion polymerization plant for vinyl resins. Built new facility for manufacture of synthetic fiber from vinyl chloride and acrylonitrile - South Charleston, West Virginia. Built new vinyl chloride monomer plant, a solution polymeri zation resin plant and a continuous bulk polymerization resin plant in Texas City, Texas. Discontinued manufacture of vinyl chloride by caustic dehy drochlorination of ethylene dichloride and manufacture of bulk polymerized resins at South Charleston, West Virginia. Expanded solution polymerization plant for resins in Texas City. Initiated manufacture of vinyl resins by the suspension resin process at South Charleston, West Virginia. Converted the emulsion polymerization plant to a dispersion resin plant at South Charleston, West Virginia. Expanded the solution polymerization plant at Texas City, Texas. RNW 0544 1961 1962 1965 1967 1968 1969 1976 Perth Amboy Bulk Terminal started operation under OTD management. Initiated manufacture of vinyl resins by the suspension resin process at Texas City, Texas under technology license from Wacker Chemie. Expanded the suspension vinyl resin plant at Texas City, Texas, reduced capacity for bulk resins by fifty percent at Texas City, Texas and discontinued manufacture of sus pension vinyl resins at South Charleston, West Virginia. Discontinued manufacture of vinyl chloride at South Charleston, West Virginia. Expanded the Suspension vinyl resin plant at Texas City, Texas. Discontinued manufacture of vinyl chloride at Texas City, Texas. Discontinued the manufacture of vinyl chloride copolymer fiber and dispersion vinyl resins at South Charleston, West Virginia. RNWJr./pm December 2, 1977 RNW 0545