Advantages of Flexible PVC (vs. other Polymers)

• Inexpensive
• Durable
• Safe
• Chemically resistant
• Easily processed by a wide variety of different types of equipment
• Readily modified (hardness, color, texture, density physical properties etc. can be easily and greatly varied)
• Products are most appealing to end-users
• Recyclable
• Printable, paintable, easily adhered to
• Foamable
• Thoroughly tested and long used in many end products
• Ideally suited for use in certain medical products including blood bags
• Non-flammable
• Inherently non thermally conductive
• Inherently non electrically conductive
• More elastic than other high volume thermoplastics
• Easily made relatively permeable to certain gases
• Heat and radio frequency energy weldable
• Sparing of finite hydrocarbon natural resources in its manufacture
• Comparable to other high volume thermoplastics in life cycle analyses
• Blendable/alloyable with other polymers
• Widely available worldwide