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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new range of facade cladding tiles made of recycled PVC construction waste, designed by Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, has been used on a permanent building for the first time. Called ...

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 ...

Houses and apartments built or remodeled in the last decade tend to have one thing in common: The floors are usually covered in “luxury” vinyl plank, often in a sickly shade of gray. The material is ...

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).

Skokie, Ill-based decking manufacturer Azek Co. is buying Aliquippa, Pa.-based cellular PVC building products manufacturer Versatex Holdings LLC to broaden its lines of exterior trim and mouldings.

Pool towel racks are great to dry out wet but perfectly clean towels so they can be used again later in the day or stored away with your supply of beach/pool towels. Make one yourself for a few bucks ...