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When worlds collide, strange things can happen. Try to imagine fashion students asking PVC lab researchers to pick up paint brushes.

Gioia Seghers and Stella Geneston from the prestigious La Cambre National School of Visual Arts of Brussels did just that.

“For years we’ve been collaborating and supporting projects linked with industrial design in the field of textiles, having as special partner La Cambre School of Arts,” says Daniel Martinz, who works in technical marketing and development for paste PVC at SolVin.

Why throw used PVC away in a landfill when you can dress up your street sign poles with it? Wallcovering Pubblicità of Italy takes it a step further. Its TrialSystem® makes signs more eye-catching and safety-intensive.

The raw materials? Some of the toughest end-of-life PVC to recycle. The process? Using an extrusion-injection process.

‘’At Wallcovering Pubblicità, we’ve been active for the past 35 years in the field of design and integrated communication, looking for functional solutions for the urban environment,’’ says founder and CEO Davide Noti.

Thousands of World Cup fans tooting their vuvuzelas in South Africa last year made the tournament an unforgettable event in Cape Town’s futuristic Green Point Stadium, where a new kind of PVC helped make those horns ring brightly.

Seven decades of experience behind duraskin materials made by Verseidag-Indutex made the textiles the natural choice for the stadium façades and parts of the roof structure.

Push-fit assembly has made PVC highly popular as pipelines for potable water, irrigation, sewerage, rain water, well casings and cable ducting. But there's a risk - they can pull apart, if the pullout force is strong enough.

The company Hultec Europe took their inspiration from the jaws of those canines that won't give up. They tested their product by hanging a fully loaded truck on it! And yet the system is comparatively lightweight.