What is PVC pipe made of?
PVC pipe takes PVC and titanium dioxide directly. Trace them back and you pass 13 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water through PVC
- Titanium ore through titanium dioxide
- Natural gas through PVC, ethylene
- Rock salt through titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Iron ore through PVC, pigment
- Sulfur through PVC, pigment
- Air through PVC, plasticizer
- Coal through titanium dioxide, coke
- Crude oil through PVC, plasticizer, naphtha