Industry Review 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Euro Chlor has just presented its new Chlorine Industry Review. It gives an overview of the most important dossiers the federation has been working on in the past eighteen months, presents the progress achieved in the sectoral sustainability programme and lists detailed data on the chlor-alkali sector in Europe.
In his foreword, Executive Director Alistair
Steel asks what can be done to enable the European Chlor Alkali
Industry to compete in the international field and prevent an
erosion of market share.
"The question is not a trivial one",Steel
underlines,"Are we a fundamentally well run, cost efficient
industry who needs to be nurtured or are we unable to repel the
undeniably strong competition from other parts of the world
dooming us to a slow and painful demise?"
And the Executive Director continues: "The
current work to win state aid compensation to offset carbon
dioxide emission costs for intensive energy consumers is crucial in
the drive for competitiveness. The European economy needs
industries like ours able to provide employment, pay taxes, and to
provide the chemical building blocks for other manufacturing
industries".
Hand in glove with competitiveness
issustainability, an area where Euro Chlor has much to be proud
of. Its first 10 year sustainability programme achieved notable
successes with increased energy efficiency, mercury emission
reduction and the increased use of hydrogen. The second 10 year
initiative on the journey towards the goal of industrial
immortality is now launched. The Federation has taken the
opportunity to broaden its approach to include aspects of economic
and social factors.
In the first chapter the Review presents details
on the progress made in the Euro ChlorSustainability Programme,
launched in 2001. This programme monitored fourteen performance
indicators and sets improvement goals for them.
The other chapters give an overview of the main
dossiersand issues Euro Chlor recently has been dealing with in the
fields of Regulatory Affairs, Science and Communication &
Education.
Finally, the Review shows the latestfigures on
chlorine and caustic production and uses, as well as the most
important data on the European chlorine producing member
companies.
The Chlorine Industry Review can be ordered free
of cost using the Euro Chlor Contact Form
or consulted and downloaded on the Euro Chlor
website.
Further information:
Alistair J Steel, Executive Director, Tel: +32 2 676 73 50
Dirk Clotman, Communications Manager, Tel. +32 473 83 79 64
Additional information on the European Chlor-Alkali sector and its
views on www.eurochlor.org
