What is vinyl flooring made of?
Vinyl flooring takes PVC, plasticizer, limestone, fiberglass and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 30 made things on the way to 18 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 18 raw materials
- Limestone goes straight in
- Water through ink
- Air through plasticizer
- Silica sand through fiberglass
- Natural gas through PVC, ethylene
- Rock salt through PVC, chlorine
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Crude oil through plasticizer, propylene
- Trona through fiberglass, soda ash
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 26 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 21
EthyleneChlorinePigmentNaphthaPropyleneSoda ashCarbon blackTitanium dioxideEthanolSulfuric acidHydrogenAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimeHexanePhenolFormaldehydeOxygen gasBenzeneMethanolToluene