Articles from Vinyl Institute

New Orleans, LA, Dec. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC) awarded Deceuninck North America with the 2025 Recycling Award for their Vinyl Buy Back Program. Deceuninck’s efforts have yielded more than a million pounds of recycled PVC that have been diverted from landfills and recycled to help advance circularity within the vinyl industry. 

New Orleans, LA, Dec. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC) awarded Aurora Material Solutions the 2025 Design for Reuse Award for AuroraEcoplast™, a product platform that facilitates recycling of rigid PVC compounds into new applications that were previously unable to support recycled content. The VSC’s Design for Reuse Award recognizes vinyl products purposely designed for disassembly, recycling or reuse at the product’s end of life.

New Orleans, LA, Dec. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC) awarded Mannington Mills, Inc as the recipient of the 2025 Social Impact Award for their Work Hard/Play Hard initiative to support Feeding America® and local food banks.

Special recognition of 7 VI member facilities with zero recordable OSHA incidents for five or more consecutive years and 13 member facilities with five or more consecutive years of outstanding performance under EPA’s NESHAPs, and other environmental permit requirements.

Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vinyl Institute (VI) presented Richard Krock of VyChlor Advisors, Patrick Harmon of BASF, and Matt Siegel of Oldcastle Infrastructure, with its 2025 Industry Partners of the Year Awards at this year’s annual meeting. The Industry Partner of the Year award recognizes allies who have made unique and valuable contributions on behalf of the industry’s outreach, advocacy, and education programs.

The Vinyl Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award was established in honor of the Vinyl Institute’s founding director, Roy T. Gottesman, and recognizes outstanding service to the vinyl industry during a person’s career.

Washington, D.C., Sept. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vinyl Institute (VI), a U.S. trade association representing the leading manufacturers of vinyl, is proud to support Plastic Back in its launch of a first-of-its-kind pilot project, aiming to enhance PVC recycling rates and showcase that PVC can be efficiently transformed into valuable raw materials and reintegrated into industrial supply chains. The project, to be commissioned in Q1 2026 at a Freepoint Eco-Systems’ facility in Hebron, Ohio, will test and scale a novel chemical recycling technology developed by Plastic Back. Supported in part through funding from the VI’s VIABILITY grant program and the BIRD Energy program managed by the US-Israel BIRD Foundation, the pilot will process PVC-rich waste streams and serve as a collaborative platform—bringing together waste handlers, petrochemical companies, brand owners, and technology providers to demonstrate a scalable circular solution for PVC.

Washington, D.C., Sept. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vinyl Institute (VI), a U.S. trade association representing the leading manufacturers of vinyl, is proud to support Plastic Back in its launch of a first-of-its-kind pilot project, aiming to enhance PVC recycling rates and showcase that PVC can be efficiently transformed into valuable raw materials and reintegrated into industrial supply chains. The project, to be commissioned in Q1 2026 at a Freepoint Eco-Systems’ facility in Hebron, Ohio, will test and scale a novel chemical recycling technology developed by Plastic Back. Supported in part through funding from the VI’s VIABILITY grant program and the BIRD Energy program managed by the US-Israel BIRD Foundation, the pilot will process PVC-rich waste streams and serve as a collaborative platform—bringing together waste handlers, petrochemical companies, brand owners, and technology providers to demonstrate a scalable circular solution for PVC.