Building products?

JSP stocks PVC-UE and PVC-U products for the building industry, and is dedicated to achieving the best standards in the PVC building products industry.

We offer one of the widest ranges of PVC-UE building products. Our range extends to 1,300 products, the majority of which are BBA and BS Kitemark approved.

The story of PVC

Since pre-historic times, man has exploited for his own use the properties of natural polymers such as horn, waxes and bitumens. Over the years, it was gradually learned that the properties of such materials could be improved by techniques such as purification and modification with other substances. By the turn of the 19th century, the explosion of scientific knowledge in fields such as chemistry and physics, coupled with demands from industry for materials with properties not found naturally, created the environment for the development of a whole range of new materials -among them the early plastics. PVC was first introduced nearly 50 years ago as a building material. It is now the most widely used polymer in building and construction applications and over 50 per cent of Western Europe's annual PVC production is used in this sector. In terms of source materials, PVC-UE is derived 57% from abundantly available common salt and 43% from oil. Only around 4% of the world's oil production finds its way into the manufacture of all plastics, so the proportion attributable to PVC-UE is small.