For homeowners with leaky or bursting plastic plumbing, relief may be less imminent — and less extensive — than some attorneys had hoped. A Houston judge last week threw out a $750 million ...

If your house went up in the 1980s, the most expensive thing hiding behind the drywall may not be knob‑and‑tube wiring or asbestos tile, but a gray plastic pipe that looked like the future when ...

IRVING, TX — A new technical document that addresses the critical differences between crosslinked polyethylene (PEX) tubing systems with polybutylene (PB) systems has been published by the Plastics ...

Emery and Susan Kochie bought their house in 1982. It`s in the Willowglen subdivision of Mesquite, Tex., a cluster of middle-income homes nestled just south of Interstate Highway 30. The neighborhood ...

Yazaki Corporation and Toray Industries have jointly developed a recycled polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) resin grade which uses scrap materials from manufacturing processes to make connectors for ...

San Antonio is suing plastic water-pipe manufacturers for $50 million in a case that could be important to Chicago where an ordinance to approve the use of plastic water pipes in homes is pending in ...