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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Corporation (NYSE: WLK) today announced that Westlake Global Compounds businesses and operating sites outside of the U.S. - Westlake Compounds Holdings, S.A.S. - have been awarded the esteemed EcoVadis Silver Medal, reflecting the company's commitment to improved environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility. This accolade places these Westlake Global Compounds sites among the top 15% of companies assessed by EcoVadis globally over the past.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Global Compounds and Westlake Dimex, business units of Westlake Corporation (NYSE: WLK), today announced the launch of “Choose Pink,” a pilot polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling program with Houston Methodist. The program is the first-of-its-kind at a health care system in Houston and will take place at the Outpatient Center (OPC) at Houston Methodist Hospital, the hospital's flagship location in the Texas Medical Center. The Choose Pink pilot recycling program.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of Westlake Corporation (NYSE: WLK) today declared a regular dividend distribution of $0.525 per share for the second quarter of 2024. This dividend will be payable on September 5, 2024, to stockholders of record on August 20, 2024. This is the 80th successive quarterly dividend that Westlake has declared since completing its initial public offering in August 2004. The statements in this release that are not historical facts, including statements.

112,000-square-foot luxury leisure and lifestyle destination features indoor and outdoor pools with a beach club, seven pickleball courts, expansive workout spaces and much more, elevating health and wellness in the community DALLAS , Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Time (NYSE: LTH) further expanded in Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex with the opening of Life Time Westlake on Aug. 3. The opening extends Life Time's athletic country club footprint to 33 locations across Texas.

Sales of Westlake (WLK) fall in Q2 due to lower year-over-year average sales prices for the majority of its key products in the PEM unit.

Westlake Corporation (NYSE:WLK ) Q2 2024 Results Conference Call August 6, 2024 11:00 AM ET Company Participants Johnathan Zoeller - VP and Treasurer Albert Chao - Executive Chairman Jean-Marc Gilson - President and CEO Steve Bender - EVP and CFO Conference Call Participants Patrick Cunningham - Citi Bhavesh Lodaya - BMO Capital Markets Michael Sison - Wells Fargo Frank Mitsch - Fermium Research, LLC Aleksey Yefremov - KeyBanc Josh Spector - UBS Hassan Ahmed - Alembic Global Advisors Mike Leithead - Barclays Arun Viswanathan - RBC Capital Markets Turner Hinrichs - Morgan Stanley Kevin McCarthy - Vertical Research Partners David Begleiter - Deutsche Bank Stephen Byrne - Bank of America Securities Jeff Zekauskas - JPMorgan Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by.

The headline numbers for Westlake (WLK) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended June 2024, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.

Westlake Chemical (WLK) came out with quarterly earnings of $2.40 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.90 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.31 per share a year ago.

Get a deeper insight into the potential performance of Westlake (WLK) for the quarter ended June 2024 by going beyond Wall Street's top -and-bottom-line estimates and examining the estimates for some of its key metrics.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of Westlake Chemical Partners GP LLC, the general partner of Westlake Chemical Partners LP (the "Partnership") (NYSE:WLKP), has declared a distribution of $0.4714 per unit. This is the 40th quarterly distribution announced by the Partnership since its initial public offering. The distribution will be payable on August 27, 2024, to unit holders of record on August 12, 2024. This release is intended to be a qualified notice under Treasury Regulatio.