16 Facts About PVC

The rigid form of PVC is used in construction for pipe and in profile applications such as doors and windows.

PVC was synthesized in 1872 by German chemist Eugen Baumann after extended investigation and experimentation.

Goodrich Company developed a method in 1926 to plasticize PVC by blending it with various additives, including the use of dibutyl phthalate by 1933.

PVC has mainly an atactic stereochemistry, which means that the relative stereochemistry of the chloride centres are random.

The choice of additives used for the PVC finished product is controlled by the cost performance requirements of the end use specification .

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Roughly half of the world's PVC resin manufactured annually is used for producing pipes for municipal and industrial applications.

UPVC is extensively used in the building industry as a low-maintenance material, particularly in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.

Plasticized PVC is used to produce thin, colored, or clear, adhesive-backed films referred to simply as vinyl.

PVC fabric is water-resistant, used for its weather-resistant qualities in coats, skiing equipment, shoes, jackets, aprons, and patches.

Two main application areas for single-use medically approved PVC compounds are flexible containers and tubing: containers used for blood and blood components, for urine collection or for ostomy products and tubing used for blood taking and blood giving sets, catheters, heart-lung bypass sets, hemodialysis sets etc.

PVC piping is cheaper than metals used in musical instrument making; it is therefore a common alternative when making instruments, often for leisure or for rarer instruments such as the contrabass flute.

An instrument that is almost exclusively built from PVC tube is the slap organ, a percussive organ which is played by slapping the open tubes with a flip-flop or similar.

Since that time, studies of PVC workers in Australia, Italy, Germany, and the UK have all associated certain types of occupational cancers with exposure to vinyl chloride, and it has become accepted that VCM is a carcinogen.

PVC produces HCl upon combustion almost quantitatively related to its chlorine content.

In February 2007, the Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee of the US Green Building Council released its report on a PVC avoidance related materials credit for the LEED Green Building Rating system.

The additives in PVC are known to cause skin reactions such as allergic contact dermatitis.