As indicated by these two photos, when PVC thermal expansion and contraction is not taken into consideration when designing and installing PVC conduit runs, the pipe run can simply self-destruct.

Westlake Pipe & Fittings will build a 190,000-square-foot manufacturing plant for molecular-oriented PVC pipe (PVCO) at its production site in Wichita Falls, Texas. The PVCO pipe offering will enhance ...

Westlake Chemical Corp. said it will spend $90 million to boost output of PVC pipe and related chemicals and resins at its site in Calvert City, Kentucky. The expansions will increase annual ...

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BOSTON (CBS) - Union plumbers say it's not just the dust from cutting PVC pipe that makes installing it so dangerous. Joe King is a plumbing instructor for the union. He tells the I-Team, "It's the ...