April 28, 2008Plastic Pipes 2008 Conference (Creon). Let's have a look to the presentation done by Mr Bruno van der Wielen, President of PVC4Pipes, at the Plastic Pipes 2008 Conference in Moscow. [EN]
April 28, 2008The 10th International PVC Conference. Let's have a look to the presentations done by the SolVin's experts, during the 10th International PVC Conference at the Brighton Dome in UK. [EN]
April 25, 2008Polymer Sourcing Conference (AMI). Let's have a look to the presentation done by Mr Christian Backaert, Supply Chain Manager, at the Polymer Sourcing Conference in Barcelona. [EN]
March 14, 2008Cables 2008 - Vinyloop Ferrara, a beautiful reality in PVC recycling.
CABLES 2008, one of the major conference about cables & wires occured on March, 5th in Cologne. Mr Giovanni Piras presented the Vinyloop Ferrara business, detailing the last advances in the process of treating PVC Composites to manufacture R-PVC, a plasticised PVC compound. [EN]-[DE]
February 29, 2008Oscar della Plastica Prima Edizione: 5 Oscar assegnati ad altrettanti prodotti innovativi nei settori applicativi Imballaggio, Imballaggio secondario, Edilizia, Articoli sportivi e Giocattolo. [EN]-[IT]
February 18, 2008PVC Design Newsletter n°8. Nice vinyl objects for our today's living environment are presented in the 8th issue of the PVCDesign Newsletter published by ECVM.
Enjoy the reading and discover how designers can innovate with our product! [EN]
February 06, 2008Harriman Conference 2007. Do you want to know more about innovation in PVC and about SolVin Awards results? Discover the presentation of Richard Thommeret. [EN]
January 28, 2008Fair Interplastica 2008. SolVin will be present at the next important plastic fair in Russia : INTERPLASTICA 2008, from January 29 to February 1st. SolVin will be presenting its vinyl products and innovations on a common booth with other Solvay Plastics business. [EN]
January 16, 2008Vinyl Foundation: let us give the means to hold our commitments! On December 5th of last year, all the European converters, partners of Vinyl 2010 ®, established the Vinyl Foundation. It is about an independent additional organization created specially to harvest donations of contribution to the financing of the plans of collection and harvest already set up, but also - and especially! - of their reproduction everywhere in Europe. [EN]
December 20, 2007Brasilian SolVin PVC produced from salt and sugar. Solvay Indupa has recently approved a further USD 135 million investment program to expand and increase the competitiveness of its vinyls production plant of Santo Andre, Brazil. This second stage of expansion comprises the creation of an integrated plant to produce ethylene with ethanol originating from sugar cane. Ethylene is one of the two main feedstocks needed to manufacture polyvinyl chloride (PVC) - together with chlorine, which is produced through a salt-based electrolysis process. [EN]
December 19, 20073rd SolVin Award for PVC Innovation...the book is available now! This 3rd edition is again a success and demonstrates how all actors along the vinyl chain, from designers to recyclers, can contribute to the innovation in PVC.
The brand new leaflet is available now, showing the complete list of all 107 projects with a summary and the contact person, if you want to know more...you can download it here.
Enjoy and discover 2007 PVC Innovations!
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October 31, 2007Wave 15. The SolVin magazine for PVC professionals has been given a makeover. There are more pages so that means more information...
Download issue 15 of your all new Wave right now. [EN]-[FR]-[NL]-[ES]
October 30, 2007SolVin Awards acclaim vinyl innovators at K2007 for environmental, design and safety achievements. The winners of the 2007 SolVin Awards for PVC Innovation were unveiled yesterday during the K2007 International Plastics Trade Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, honouring the most impressive innovators among 107 contestants which represented the entire vinyl value chain. In this third ceremony since the launch of the SolVin Awards, the jury honoured innovations which highlight the decisive contribution of vinyl to environmental efficiency, design quality and human safety. [EN]-[ES]
September 21, 2007Strumenti di valutazione delle prestazioni ambientali di un bene o servizio Un caso interessante: Toroc e le Olimpiadi invernali 2006 a Torino. [EN]-[IT]
September 18, 2007Solvay displays its products at the Brasilplast fair 2007. At the Brasilplast fair, Solvay displays the company’s products and their practical applications to its customers... [EN]-[FR]
August 30, 2007Interview of Mr Pleska: Solvay will grow in vinyls without acquisitions. Belgium's PVC and specialty chemicals producer Solvay will shun the acquisitions market as it seeks to grow its vinyls production to meet increasing demand across Europe, Jean-Pierre Pleska, General Manager of Solvay's strategic business unit for vinyls, told Platts in an interview. [EN]
August 01, 2007You want to learn more about the PVC Pipes markets in Central & Eastern Europe? Let's have a look to the presentation done by Mr Joël Fumire, Pipes & Fittings expert of SolVin, at the 3rd conference of "Chlor-Vinyls Russia and CEE Markets" - June 1st, 2007 in Warsaw (PL).
You will discover an analysis of the pipe market consumptions by country and a focus on the main applications for PVC owing to its cost/performance advantages versus traditional materials, specialy in this geographic area. [EN]
July 24, 2007SolVin moves to reap sustainable benefits from dynamic vinyls market. SolVin moves to reap sustainable benefits from dynamic vinyls market, and is planning to expand the capacity of its plant in Jemeppe (Belgium), with the state-of-the-art technologies, to go on stream in 2009. [EN]-[FR]-[NL]
June 30, 2007Pipe Technology News from TEPPFA. Dutch research confirms that PVC pressure water pipes could last more than 100 years. Please find more on the TEPPFA newsletter. [EN]
June 28, 2007SolVin and SIBUR set up a JV for PVC Complex Construction: RusVinyl LLC. Solvay and SolVin announce today that they have signed a joint venture agreement with Sibur LLC, an affiliate of Gazprom to build Russia's first world-scale, fully integrated vinyls plant in Kstovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod region. [EN]-[FR]-[NL]
June 27, 2007Plastic Pressure Pipes 2007 Conference. Which connection system will you choose for PVC Piping? Are you sure you know all connection systems you can use for joining PVC pipes?
Discover the presentation of Mr Joël Fumire, Pipes & Fittings expert of SolVin, at the next AMI conference :"Plastic Pressure Pipes" - June 26th, 2007 in Dusseldorf (D). [EN]
June 11, 2007104 entries for the third SolVin Awards 2007 for PVC Innovation: a big success! 104 contestants applied for the third SolVin Awards 2007 for PVC Innovation, which will distinguish five of them at a ceremony to be held on October 29th 2007 during the Kunststoffe 2007 Fair in Düsseldorf (D). [EN]-[FR]-[DE]
June 07, 2007The Plastic Pressure Pipes 2007 Conference. Which connection system will you choose for PVC Piping ?
Are you sure you know all connection systems you can use for joining PVC pipes ?
From simple socket to gluing and welding, the presentation of Mr Joël Fumire, Pipes & Fittings expert of SolVin, at the next AMI conference :"Plastic Presure Pipes" - June 26th, 2007 in Dusseldorf (D), will tell you all the advantages and drawbacks of those techniques.
Do you know laserwelding, and the latest advances in performance for Vinyls ?
You will discover all its potentialities for PVC pipes, and learn that welding versus gluing offers more resistance, based on recent tests performed by SolVin.
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May 10, 2007SolVin is proud to announce the release of the Progress Report 2007. We are glad to report a massive growth in the recycling figures, jumping from 39,000 tonnes recycled PVC in 2005 to 83,000 tonnes in 2006. This means that for the second consecutive year, Vinyl 2010 more than doubled its recycling figures. This and many more achievements are outlined in the Progress Report. [EN]-[FR]-[NL]
May 09, 2007SolVin launches a long-awaited aqueous dispersion for the paint industry. SolVin is launching, in the Diofan® product line, a brand-new polyvinylidene chloride aqueous dispersion grade called Diofan® P 510 for the manufacturing of anticorrosion and protective paints, at the European Coatings Show 2007 in Nuremberg (Germany). [EN]
April 23, 2007Wave 14 - New look! The PVC world never stands still. New products, new markets, new regulations, etc. We at SolVin aim to provide professionals in the sector with a source of relevant information, covering our favourite subject with 28 pages of vinyl news. [EN]-[NL]
March 15, 2007The Plastprogres 2007 Conference. Mrs Claudine Bloyaert, Technical Market Development of PVC Profiles for SolVin has presented on March, 15th 2007 an interesting overview about Wood Plastics Composites (WPC), at the PLASTPROGRES'07 conference held in Belgrade. [EN]-[NL]
March 07, 2007The Cables 2007 Conference. Dr Rick Whiteley, an international toxicologist expert, has presented a paper under the name of SolVin at the CABLES 2007conference (organised by AMI) held in Cologne, on March, 6th, 2007. The title of the paper is :"Should Toxicity of Fire effluents be measured ? and, if so, How ?".
The aim of this paper is to have a neutral expert's eye looking at the toxicity of plastics materials during a fire, and try to analyse if some real differences are observed between them and wether it is relevant to keep this criteria. May be other criterias like electrical insulation, mecanical propeties, fire resistance, etc... are much more relevant ?
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February 07, 2007The Wood Plastic Composite Conference. Discover the presentation of Claudine Bloyaert at the Wood Plastic Composite Conference held on February 7th and 8th, 2007, in Vienna. [EN]
January 24, 2007The 3rd Annual CEE Chemical and Petrochemical Conference. Discover the presentation of Eva Timar at the 3rd Annual CEE Chemical and Petrochemical Conference, held on January 23-24, 2007 in Budapest. [EN]
January 16, 2007Launch of the competition "The SolVin Awards for PVC Innovation". At the occasion of the international plastics trade fair K2007, which will take place next October in Düsseldorf, SolVin organizes the third edition of its European competition "The SolVin Awards for PVC Innovation". [EN]-[FR]-[DE]-[IT]-[ES]
December 15, 2006Solvay & SolVin partners in the “SANTO” expedition to the Vanuatu Islands: the most ambitious international scientific mission in the field of biodiversity. In partnership with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, the Solvay Group and SolVin are pleased to announce their participation in the most ambitious international scientific mission ever undertaken in the field of biodiversity: the SANTO 2006. [EN]-[NL]
December 04, 2006Windows hold the key to Europe's energy efficiency drive. The Hermes study about energy saving by modern windows (commissioned and presented by EPPA and PVCplus in spring)was this week presented on the profiles conference in Brussels. EPPA and PVCplus took the opportunity to publish a press release. [EN]
November 27, 2006SolVin launches NanoVin, a vinyl nanocomposite "smart material". Solvay announces today that its vinyls joint venture in Europe, SolVin, is launching NanoVin®, an innovative nanocomposite combining polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and nanoparticles of clay.
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November 15, 2006The Plastics Pipes XIII Conference. Discover the presentation of Mr Joël Fumire at the Plastics Pipes XIII Conference held in Washington on October 2006.
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November 14, 2006The Sixth Global PVC Conference. Discover the presentation of Bruno van der Wielen at the 6th Global PVC Conference. [EN]
November 07, 2006The Loughborough PVC Conference. Discover the presentation of Mr Eric Vandevijver. [EN]
September 22, 2006Solvay pionners e-billing solution in Europe Within the frame of its e-business strategy, SolVin is providing this service to its customers, among other tools like the on-line ordering. [EN]
June 26, 2006Atex Directive : Solvin position paper on application to PVC powder. The risk of PVC dust explosion is extremely low. Discover our additional information. [EN]
June 12, 2006REACH - Implicazioni per gli utilizzatori di PVC La nuova legislazione europea in materia di sostanze chimiche (prodotte e/o importate nell'UE) ha lo scopo di regolamentarne l'uso al fine di migliorare la protezione della salute umana e dell'ambiente e di responsabilizzare ulteriormente l'Industria sulla gestione del rischio associato a queste sostanze .
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March 13, 2006Internorm - Award for SolVin at the Ball on 24th January 2006 SOLVIN received in Vienna the Award of the Top Supplier in 2005 from the Austrian company INTERNORM. [EN]
February 16, 2006Football World Championship Berlin's Radio and Television Tower wrapped up with PVC. [EN]
February 03, 2006Winter Olympics of Torino The XXth Olympic Winter games will be hosted by some eight locations in the Italian Alps. [EN]-[FR]-[NL]
August 24, 2005Automotive Industry uses more and more PVC The 61st IAA will be held in Frankfurt - Germany from 15th to 25th of September. [EN]
August 24, 2005PVC membranes shaped as white cloud - a landmark during the World Youth Day in Cologne Under a white roof Pope Benedict celebrated an open-air mass attended by more than a million young people. [EN]-[DE]
July 13, 2005Texyloop SAS takes a participation of 20 % in Vinyloop Ferrara SpA In Ferrara, in the North of Italy, Texyloop, the very innovative process to recycle composite tarpaulins (PVC-Polyester), will be embedded. [EN]
June 15, 2005Unraveling the distribution of mega-biodiversity in complex ecosystems. Relationships between vertical gradients and beta-diversity of arthropods in tropical rainforests. [EN]
May 11, 2005Substituting plastics with more traditional material would jeopardise the EU-15 Kyoto target Substituting plastics, where possible, by more traditional materials [EN]-[FR]-[DE]
April 13, 2005UK: Recycling of organic-coated steels and the potential recycling of organic-coated steels show very low dioxin emissions. There were concerns that, because of the nature of this material, there was a potential for dioxin formation leading to increased emissions. [EN]
April 13, 2005EU: Good practices guide on waste plastics recycling, a guide by and for local and regional authorities. This guide seeks to bring together information from many sources to help L/RAs indentifiy the practical issues. [EN]
April 12, 2005SolVins contribution to ECVM Vinyls 2010 Voluntary commitment and Responsible Care 100% of compliance of ECVM Industry Charter for the environmental parameters of VCM emission in the production of Emulsion PVC. [EN]-[FR]-[DE]
March 25, 2005Competitive Second Generation process at Vinyloop Ferrara Vinyloop Ferrara SpA improves further competitiveness. [EN]
March 25, 2005Swiss glacier protected by PVC The glacier of Gurschen will be covered by a foamed PVC foil. [EN]-[FR]
March 03, 2005The Gates by Christo The famous "The gates" exposition in New York Central Park [EN]-[DE]
February 11, 2005Oriented PVC Piping With high speed trains soon travelling close to Martorell site, the pipeline carrying salt water from the plant to the sea needed rerouting. [EN]
January 12, 2005USGBC draft report shows vinyl building products have comparable impacts to products made of competing materials Expert group recommends no credit for eliminating vinyl or 'any particular material' [EN]
January 05, 2005State of New-York Since Jan.1, plastic pipe is accepted throughout all buildings. [EN]
December 10, 2004 This new product is an inflatable PVC mattress [EN]
November 09, 2004Solvay launches its vinyls technology in China with ground-breaking license agreement Solvay SA announces today that it has signed a license agreement to supply its vinyl chloride monomer technology to Singpu Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. for the construction of a new production unit in Taixing (Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China). [EN]-[FR]
September 02, 2004Solvay Confirms Intention to Create Hydrogen Peroxide Joint Venture with BASF Solvay Innovative Megaplant based on Solvay Technology to be built in Antwerp (B). [EN]-[FR]
March 08, 2004Switzerland: Recycling of Plastics in Switzerland and lack of environmental impact of PVC incineration The impact of plastics in municipal waste incineration was evaluated in this study. [EN]
March 04, 2004UK: Thermal Treatment of Waste and Sustainability: An Evaluation Using the Natural Step Framework The 2020 Vision report explores the sustainability implications of various thermal treatment technologies for waste handling [EN]
March 01, 2004EU: EU Risk assessments on phthalate plasticiser DINP and DIDP The final Summary and Full EU Risk Assessment reports on DINP and DIDP have been published by the European Commission's European Chemical Bureau (ECB). [EN]
February 16, 20041954-2004: 50 years of PVC windows! Rectangular PVC window frames celebrate round-numbered anniversary. [EN]-[FR]
February 13, 2004PVC and ski: flexible and tough Sturdy, extra-resistant ski poles of PVC are indispensable to downhill racing safety. [EN]-[FR]
January 09, 2004Aircraft from Austria Conquer World Market:
High-tech PVC Plays Leading Role in Small Aircraft Construction Innovative design, extremely low fuel consumption, and high-tech PVC-based special bonding agents have made Austria a world leader in the small aircraft construction sector. [EN]-[FR]-[DE]
November 28, 2003New life for PVC: silence A new innovative application, essentially made of recycled post consumer PVC, in the form of a sound barrier along our highways was set up industrially by the company Deceuninck. [EN]-[FR]-[NL]-[DE]
September 22, 2003IBISCA Mission for the SolVinBretzel in Panama From 22 September to 31 October 2003, the “SolVinBretzel” Canopy Raft will be taking part in a new scientific adventure. This time it will host twenty international scientists on top of Panama’s tropical forest for an international research mission into insect biodiversity. [EN]-[FR]-[NL]-[DE]
September 19, 2003Thailand - Houses built nearly entirely with PVC Combining the appearance of wood with the qualities of PVC is particularly well-advised under this climate conditions.
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September 01, 2003Welcome to the new SolVin PVC site We are proud to introduce you to the new version of the SolVin site. [EN]
January 18, 2002Solvay & SolVin partners in the “SANTO” expedition to the Vanuatu Islands: the most ambitious international scientific mission in the field of biodiversity In partnership with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, the Solvay Group and SolVin are pleased to announce their participation in the most ambitious international scientific mission ever undertaken in the field of biodiversity: the SANTO 2006. [EN]
