Business Description

Overview Westlake Corporation is a vertically integrated global manufacturer and marketer of both housing and infrastructure products and performance and essential materials that are designed to enhance the lives of people every day. Our products include some of the most widely used materials in the world, which are fundamental to many diverse consumer and industrial markets, including residential construction, flexible and rigid packaging, automotive, healthcare, water treatment, wind turbines, coatings as well as other durable and non-durable goods. We operate in two principal operating segments, Housing and Infrastructure Products (HIP) and Performance and Essential Materials (PEM). We are highly integrated along our materials chain with significant downstream integration from ethylene and chlor-alkali (chlorine and caustic soda) into vinyls, polyethylene (PE) and epoxy. We also have substantial downstream integration from polyvinyl chloride ("PVC") into our HIP segment for our residential building products, PVC pipe and fittings and PVC compounds. Our Strategy and History As a global manufacturer of housing and infrastructure products and performance and essential materials, we focus on delivering value to our customers, creating sustainable shareholder value, and developing a rewarding work environment for our employees. We are committed to produce products that are enhancing the lives of people every day. We do this by providing innovative and useful products while maintaining high standards of customer service and operational excellence with a commitment to managing costs. We continually explore external and internal growth opportunities that complement our existing products and our integrated structure, help us reduce costs by optimizing our asset footprint and improve productivity. We began operations in 1986 and since then, we have grown rapidly into an integrated global producer of building products and chemicals through effectively executing our growth strategy. In 2014, we formed Westlake Chemical Partners LP ("Westlake Partners") to operate, acquire and develop ethylene production facilities and related assets. Also in 2014, Westlake Partners completed an initial public offering of common units (the "Westlake Partners IPO"). As of February 18, 2026, Westlake Partners' assets consisted of a 22.8% limited partner interest in Westlake Chemical OpCo LP ("OpCo"), as well as the general partner interest in OpCo. OpCo's assets include two ethylene production facilities at our olefins facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana, one ethylene production facility at our Calvert City, Kentucky site and a 200-mile common carrier ethylene pipeline that runs from Mont Belvieu, Texas to the Longview, Texas site, which includes our Longview polyethylene production facility. We retain a 77.2% limited partner interest in OpCo, a 40.1% limited partner interest in Westlake Partners (consisting of 14,122,230 common units), a general partner interest in Westlake Partners and incentive distribution rights. The operations of Westlake Partners are consolidated in our financial statements. We are party to certain agreements with Westlake Partners and OpCo whereby, among other items, OpCo sells us 95% of the ethylene it produces on a cost-plus basis that is expected to generate a fixed margin per pound of $0.10. We use this ethylene in the production processes of our Performance and Essential Materials segment. Since 2022, we own an aggregate 50% membership interest in LACC, LLC ("LACC"), which owns an ethylene plant that is adjacent to our chlor-alkali facility in Lake Charles and has 2.2 billion pounds per year of ethylene production capacity. We receive our proportionate share of LACC's ethylene production on a cash-cost basis, which benefits our integrated downstream operations. We have grown organically and completed multiple acquisitions as we seek to either expand our existing business or add new complementary businesses. In 2016, we completed the acquisition of Axiall Corporation ("Axiall"), a manufacturer and international marketer of chemicals and building products with manufacturing sites in North America, for purchase consideration of approximately $2.5 billion. In 2021, we completed the acquisition of Boral Limited's North American building products businesses in roofing; siding; trim; and shutters; decorative stone; and windows for total consideration of approximately $2.1 billion.…