A UNIVERSITY don and a fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, Prof. Samuel Wara has noted that Poly Vinyl Chloride commonly known as PVC which is one of the common synthetic materials heavily ...

Every time an office building or an old home is demolished, all of the broken-down materials have to go somewhere. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 230 million to 530 million tons ...

Gossen Corp., a manufacturer of PVC building products, has closed after 88 years, putting about 140 employees out of work in Wisconsin and Georgia and the business under the control of a ...

Fresh vegetables do not require acres of land or expensive raised beds. A simple stretch of sunlight, a bit of PVC pipe, and clever design can turn even the smallest space into a thriving food factory ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. “While many commercial builders have been involved in green ...

Building products manufacturer Westlake Chemical announced it entered into a definitive agreement with CertainTeed, a subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, to purchase its pipe and foundation ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Union plumbers say it's not just the dust from cutting PVC pipe that makes installing it so dangerous. Joe King is a plumbing instructor for the union. He tells the I-Team, "It's the ...

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Saint-Gobain, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed LLC, has acquired Vi-Lux Building Products, a Canadian custom manufacturer of cellular polyvinyl ...

If you’ve used PVC as a building material in your projects you may have run into trouble finding a way to make three pipes joint at right angles to each other (like the corner of a box outline).

That chemical-company slogan from 50 years ago has largely come true. Chemicals and plastics have contributed to numerous health advances and helped create inexpensive, abundant products. But “better ...