A report warning cities against the use of PVC pipes in water systems sparked swift and resounding criticism from the plastics industry, its advocates and at least one leading scientific expert.

North American PVC resin prices have moved up an average of 1 cent per pound since July 1, in part because of weather-related production outages. A major PVC resin plant operated by Shintech Inc. in ...

Two commodity resins saw lower prices in North America in September, with two others staying flat and one remaining unsettled ...

The price gap between polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its raw material has reached its highest level this year. The price of ethylene dichloride (EDC), the main feedstock, has plummeted, resulting in the ...

The US EPA has started a review that could eventually ban PVC production, impacting rubber ducks, like these that float down the Chicago River in an annual fundraiser. The US Environmental Protection ...

More than 140 local manufacturing employees, whose 40-year-old local plant was on the brink of closing, are back to work because of a joint venture created last fall, renewing a sense of optimism.

A businessman from India who wants to construct a plastics production plant in the Town of Lockport has revised his controversial proposal, dropping plans to produce or use PVC pipes or any products ...

On the evening of May 17, 1970, the 19th car of a freight train derailed in the Pennsylvania village of Cromby, a small town nestled along a horseshoe curve in the Schuylkill River about 30 miles from ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Patent Landscape Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report provides a detailed analysis of the patent landscape ...

TURIN, Italy & OSWEGO, Ill. & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bausano, an international leader in the design and production of customized extrusion lines for the transformation of plastic materials, today ...

Recycled PVC is post-industrial waste that is recycled into PVC sheets. Using this raw material in card production has no impact on colour, performance, or the look and feel of the finished card ...