New York, Sept. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) Industry Installed Capacity and Capital Expenditure (CapEx) Forecast ...

A year after a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the study found vinyl chloride accidents have happened on average “once every five days since 2010.” An industry group says the ...

Coming up on the one-year anniversary of the vinyl chloride spill and burn following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a new report says 3 million Americans are at risk in similar accidents.

Westlake Chemical Corporation (NYSE: WLK) today announced that it will expand capacities for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl chlo ...

The burnoff of almost 116,000 gallons of VCM contained in the five rail cars led to chemical odors and thick black smoke throughout the area. Some local residents were treated for respiratory and ...

Feb. 6, 2018: A loose pipe flange in the vinyl chloride monomer unit leaked nearly 51 pounds of hydrochloric acid. Amount is less than would be required for reporting, but Westlake did so anyway ...

In the 1970s, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) exposure was linked to a rare form of liver cancer, angiosarcoma. The EPA classified PVC as a known human carcinogen, with factory workers being the most ...

Acetylene hydrochlorination is a pivotal catalytic process that converts acetylene and hydrogen chloride into vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), the essential precursor for polyvinyl chloride ...

The Kaohsiung Environmental Protection Bureau yesterday fined Formosa Plastics Corp NT$450,000 after a tanker transporting vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at its factory in Linyuan District (林園) caught ...

Vinyl chloride (VC) is a human carcinogen known to undergo metabolism by cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) to reactive intermediates that can cause oncogene and tumor suppressor gene mutations and that ...