7. Conclusion

The stabilization of PVC will continue to evolve strongly in the future, bringing with it a large number of changes and opportunities due to rapidly changing regulatory standards and ever more demanding market demand.

Even if PVC is disappearing from certain applications and countries, it continues to be an essential and irreplaceable polymer in a large number of medical and industrial applications. The evolution of the world of PVC, and therefore of its formulation and additives, will above all revolve around a necessary reduction in its environmental impact, as part of a sustainable development approach.

The use of heavy metals such as cadmium and lead will gradually disappear, and there will be a growing need for purely organic systems. The arrival on the market of bio-sourced PVC produced from renewable materials (sugarcane fermentation)...