Houses and apartments built or remodeled in the last decade tend to have one thing in common: The floors are usually covered in “luxury” vinyl plank, often in a sickly shade of gray. The material is ...

Vinyl flooring is a common target for environmentalists because of claims of lead and phthalates mixed in with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), the material the flooring is mostly made of. And when vinyl ...

A report by Oakland, Calif.-based Center for Environmental Health says vinyl flooring manufacturers release higher levels of carbon dioxide and toxic pollution than shown in their environmental ...

DINP, used to make vinyl flooring or PVC plastics, poses health risks to children exposed to dust containing the chemical, according to EPA’s draft evaluation. A chemical used to make PVC plastics and ...

KraussMaffei Berstorff has developed a lower-cost process to make multilayer PVC floor coverings, referred in the trade as Luxury Vinyl Tiles. Traditionally, LVT is made in a multistage process using ...

- Introduced Bio-Circular Balanced PVC saving 114% carbon emission to all products for the first time in the world, presenting a standard for sustainability in the flooring industry. - NOX plans to ...

Ineos Inovyn, a business unit of London-based global petrochemical firm Ineos, has started up what it calls the “next generation recycling pilot plants” in Belgium designed to bolster Europe’s ...