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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-16-544403
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20160418

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AXIALL CORP/DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000805264
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PLASTICS, MATERIALS, SYNTH RESINS & NONVULCAN ELASTOMERS [2821]
		IRS NUMBER:				581563799
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1000 ABERNATHY ROAD NE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1200
		CITY:			ATLANTA
		STATE:			GA
		ZIP:			30328
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7703954500

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1000 ABERNATHY ROAD NE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1200
		CITY:			ATLANTA
		STATE:			GA
		ZIP:			30328

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	AXIALL Corp /DE/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20130128

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	GEORGIA GULF CORP /DE/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">April&nbsp;18, 2016 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><U>BY EDGAR TRANSMISSION
</U></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pamela Long </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Assistant Director </P>
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Securities and Exchange Commission </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">100 F Street NE </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><B>Preliminary Proxy Statement filed on Schedule 14A</B></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Axiall Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;) has received your letter dated April&nbsp;15, 2016, containing comments to the Company&#146;s
Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on April&nbsp;7, 2016 and soliciting materials filed pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 14a-12 filed on February&nbsp;16 and April&nbsp;4, 2016. On behalf of the Company, we have responded to your
comments below. On behalf of the Company, this response letter confirms that the Company will revise the disclosures in its Definitive Proxy Statement as set forth below. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><I>The inclusion of valuations in proxy materials is only appropriate and consonant with Exchange Act Rule 14a-9 when made in good faith and on a reasonable basis. Valuation information must therefore be accompanied by
disclosure which facilitates security holders&#146; understanding of the basis for and limitations of the valuation information. Refer to Exchange Act Release No.&nbsp;16833 (May 23, 1980). With a view towards disclosure, please provide us with
support for the statement indicating that the Company &#147;initiated a strategic review of our Building Products business, which is expected to include a sale of that business that the Company believes</I> <B><I>could generate up to an aggregate of
$600 to $700 million of after-tax net proceeds.&#148;</I></B> <I>(emphasis added)</I> </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ALKHOBAR &#149; AMSTERDAM &#149; ATLANTA &#149;
BEIJING &#149; BOSTON &#149; BRISBANE &#149; BRUSSELS &#149; CHICAGO &#149; CLEVELAND &#149; COLUMBUS &#149; DALLAS </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman">DETROIT &#149; DUBAI &#149;
D&#220;SSELDORF &#149; FRANKFURT &#149; HONG KONG &#149; HOUSTON &#149; IRVINE &#149; JEDDAH &#149; LONDON &#149; LOS ANGELES &#149; MADRID </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman">MEXICO CITY
&#149; MIAMI &#149; MILAN &#149; MOSCOW &#149; MUNICH &#149; NEW YORK &#149; PARIS &#149; PERTH &#149; PITTSBURGH &#149; RIYADH &#149; SAN DIEGO &#149; SAN FRANCISCO </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman">S&#195;O PAULO &#149; SHANGHAI &#149; SILICON VALLEY &#149; SINGAPORE &#149; SYDNEY &#149; TAIPEI &#149; TOKYO &#149; WASHINGTON </P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This statement is based upon written indications of interest from 18 bidders in the
Company&#146;s Building Products sale process, as well as input from the Company&#146;s outside tax advisor. Disclosing detailed support in public materials for the quoted statement could materially impact the amount of net proceeds received in the
sale, as the sale is to be effected through a competitive bidding process. However, to explain the basis of the Company&#146;s belief, the Company will add the words &#147;&#151;based on written preliminary bid ranges received to date from
interested parties and input from its tax advisors&#151;&#148; before the words &#147;could generate&#148; in the quoted statement ultimately made in the Definitive Proxy Statement. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><I>Please revise to state the total amount of expenditures to date, as that amount is known. Please refer to Item&nbsp;4(b)(4) of Schedule 14A.</I> </TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In its Definitive Proxy Statement, the Company will provide the total amount of expenditures to date related to the cost of soliciting proxies.
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><I>We note that proxies may be solicited in person, by mail, telephone or facsimile. Please be advised that all written soliciting materials, including any scripts to be used in soliciting proxies over the telephone or
any e-mail correspondence and any information posted on the Internet must be filed under the cover of Schedule 14A. Refer to Exchange Act Rule 14a-6(b) and (c). Please confirm your understanding in your response letter.</I> </TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company hereby confirms its understanding of this matter. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><I>Please confirm to us that in the event the board of directors identifies or nominates a substitute nominee prior to the annual meeting, the company will file an amended proxy statement that (1)&nbsp;identifies the
substitute nominee, (2)&nbsp;discloses whether the nominee has consented to being named in the revised proxy statement and to serve, if elected, and (3)&nbsp;includes disclosure required by Items 5(b) and 7 of Schedule 14A with respect to the
nominee.</I> </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company hereby confirms that, in the event the board of directors identifies or nominates a substitute
nominee prior to the annual meeting, the Company will file an amended proxy statement that (1)&nbsp;identifies the substitute nominee, (2)&nbsp;discloses whether the nominee has consented to being named in
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the revised proxy statement and to serve, if elected, and (3)&nbsp;includes disclosure required by Items 5(b) and 7 of Schedule 14A with respect to the nominee. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><I>Please disclose, if true, that each of the nominees has consented to serve as a director of the Company if elected, and that each of the nominees has consented to being named in the proxy statement. See Exchange Rule
14a-4(d).</I> </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will include the language below in its Definitive Proxy Statement that each of the nominees has
consented to serve as a director of the Company if elected, and that each of the nominees has consented to being named therein: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;Each of these director nominees has consented to being named in this proxy statement and to serve as a director of the Company if
elected.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><I>We note your disclosure to the effect that a stockholder granting a proxy confers discretionary authority on any other business as may properly come before the meeting and any adjournment or postponement. As a
reminder, please note that if Messrs. Mansfield, Mann, Jr. and Fishbein wish to use the proxies to vote to adjourn the meeting to solicit additional proxies, this must be listed as a separate matter on the card and in the proxy statement.</I>
</TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company hereby confirms its understanding of this matter and notes that Messrs. Mansfield, Mann, Jr. and Fishbein will
not use the proxies to vote to adjourn the meeting to solicit additional proxies. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><I>We note your statements that Westlake &#147;intends to move forward with its efforts to elect its own hand-picked slate of directors to the Axiall board who would be supportive of Westlake&#146;s proposed transaction
and that you are concerned &#145;Westlake&#146;s nominees would have inherent conflicts given Westlake&#146;s focus on acquiring Axiall.&#146;&#148; In future filings, please refrain from implying that the Westlake nominees would not act
consistently with their fiduciary duties to all security holders, or advise us as to the basis for this statement</I>. </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We appreciate your comments on our filings and we would be pleased to discuss these matters with you in greater detail at your convenience.
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