When you think about biobased materials, you don't typically think of building and construction. However, at the recent Profiles 2015 technology conference on polymer materials in exterior building ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sensibuilt Building Solutions LLC will become a brand of Fiber Composites LLC under a recently signed merger agreement. The deal will give wood-composite deck and railing manufacturer Fiber Composites ...

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 ...