What is PVC made of?
PVC takes ethylene, chlorine, water, pigment and plasticizer directly. Trace them back and you pass 12 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How PVC is made What is made from it See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Natural gas through ethylene
- Rock salt through chlorine
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Air through plasticizer
- Crude oil through plasticizer, naphtha
- Titanium ore through pigment, titanium dioxide
- Coal through pigment, titanium dioxide, coke