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If you've got a box of extra PVC pipes and fittings sitting your shed or garage from a previous project, you're halfway to ...

Houston-based Westlake Corp. is launching a new product in the United States — molecularly oriented PVC (PVCO) pipe — and will manufacture it at a new 190,000-square-foot plant in Wichita Falls, Texas ...