News
12 February 2013
Newcomer interview with Geir Vegsund, H-Produkter AS
Why did your company decide to join VinylPlus?
PVC windows keep increasing their market share in Norway. Over the last two years we have more than doubled our production capacity. With more than 20 y...
06 February 2013
Sustainable construction using PVC, a perfect match
Recent estimates indicate that the building and construction (B&C) sector is responsible for about 40% of the European Union’s (EU) total energy consumption, representing 40% of the global CO2 ...
26 November 2012
Newcomer interview with Marino Uberti, Alfatherm
Why did your company decide to join VinylPlus?
For Alfatherm there was first a corporate reason. As part of the PVC industry and member of different national and international sectorial associations...
07 November 2012
Circular economy: The benefits of closing the PVC loop
For the industry at large, it implies a radical change in its modus operandi bringing about a continuous quest for improvements in the way its resources are obtained and transformed. Companies have to...
21 August 2012
Innovation: a key priority for the sustainable PVC future
Innovation, in all its shapes and forms, will be a key driver for the evolution of the PVC industry in the next decade: innovative thinking and creative solutions, more investment in research and deve...
29 June 2012
Partnerships Forum debates on The Future We Want at Rio+20
During these three days, VinylPlus participated in a number of forums and debates on the role of partnerships where the progress made by the European PVC industry was showcased.
Below some of the m...
22 June 2012
Participation at the United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit
The presence of VinylPlus at the Rio+20 Summit is a continuation of the work initiated by Vinyl 2010 in 2004 when it became a registered Partnership with the Secretariat of the United Nations Commissi...
02 May 2012
PVC industry reports on progress
Under VinylPlus, the industry has set ambitious targets of recycling 800,000 per year tonnes of PVC in Europe by 2020. Thanks to the consolidation of collection and recycling schemes for PVC, 257,084...