BPF to Launch UK wide PVC Information drive for specifiers

BRITISH PLASTICS FEDERATION

PRESS RELEASE

BPF PR REF: 14/07

Date: 27th March 2007

BPF to Launch UK wide PVC Information drive for specifiers

The British Plastics Federation Vinyls and Windows Groups have launched a UK wide information campaign to promote PVC building products’ outstanding environmental credentials. The campaign is aimed at informing specifiers in Local Authorities, Housing Associations and construction companies of the many benefits of PVC in construction including best value, life cycle performance, whole life costing and environmental credentials.

Commenting on the launch of the campaign BPF PVC spokesman Thom Lant said “this will be a high profile campaign across the UK aimed at supporting our members involved with PVC. There is so much misinformation on PVC that specifiers find it difficult to know what the facts are about this excellent material, and we want to give them the facts from a scientific and third party point of view”.

The 2007 campaign is based upon the highly successful ‘PVC-U The Clear Choice for Windows’ campaign in 2006, but it will now include information on additional PVC building products such as cladding, pipes and flooring. The campaign will be centred around 5 free seminars for specifiers to be held around the UK, with the launch event at Arsenal’s, Emirates stadium in London on the 21st of June. This will be followed by seminars in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham. Thom Lant said “the seminar we held in 2006 proved to be very popular and the feedback attendees gave us was a fantastic opportunity to find out the questions they had about PVC and address them”.

The BPF seminars in 2007 will address many questions specifiers have about PVC and supply them with extensive information resources in an accessible format. Specifiers who register will also then be able to receive regular updates on PVC if they wish. Commenting further Mr. Lant said “the BPF members of the PVC industry in all their aspects have done an incredible amount of work towards sustainability and product design over the last 7 years. The BPF members support and work towards constantly improving as an industry, and this is the focus of their meetings. Such achievements as recycling over 14,000 tonnes of post consumer PVC are tangible testaments to their hard work and determination”.

If you would like to find out more about the campaign or how you can become involved with the BPF contact Thom Lant: [email protected]

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For further information on this press release, please contact Thom Lant, British Plastics Federation, 6 Bath Place, Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JE, tel 020 7457 5001, fax 020 7457 5045, email: [email protected]

Notes for editors

1) British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry – representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.