Eval Europe: World’s largest EVOH plant
Eval Europe has begun work on an EURO 80m expansion of its EVOH plant in Belgium. The expansion, which will double EVOH output to 24,000tpa, will make the facility the largest EVOH plant in the world. The firm currently employs 80 people at the site, and plans to recruit another 10 when the expansion is complete. A company spokesman said the firm mostly supplied the food packaging industry and was increasingly supplying customers making fuel systems for the automotive industry and underfloor heating. The plant makes Eval Resins – the brand name of a copolymer of vinyl and ethylene – that have good oxygen barrier properties. They were developed by the company’s Japanese parent company, Kuraray.