PVC, aka vinyl or polyvinyl chloride, is a versatile component found in many of the products we use every day — from siding and pipes to medical supplies to car upholstery and record albums. Along ...

Walk around your basement – see those pipes? Would you consider those pipes to be hazardous waste? What about rain boots? Garden hose? Shower curtain? Traffic cones? All of these and more have the ...

Westlake Corp. took a $727 million goodwill impairment on its North American PVC business in the third quarter of 2025, ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice today of its intent to sue the federal government for failing to regulate polyvinyl chloride — more commonly known as PVC or vinyl — as ...

Semon eventually succeeded in discovering how to synthesize rubber in 1939, just in time for World War II. Goodrich shared Semon's invention with its competitors, the Goodyear and Firestone tire and ...

Otter Tail Corp. boosted its earnings forecast after strong third-quarter results in its plastics segment, where more PVC ...

Finished S-PVC vinyl resins are kept in storage silos before being packaged or shipped. In a PVC production facility, S-PVC is the final product. The end user requires a method to closely track the ...

Researchers have developed safer alternatives to the phthalate plasticizers used to enhance the suppleness, flexibility, and longevity of plastics. Phthalates leach out of plastics into food, water, ...

A laboratory mixer is the best tool for assessing the PVC compositions' fusion behavior, compound stability, and processing behavior. It is extremely sensitive to changes in the compound formulation ...