PVC Film, Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is among the most frequently used thermoplastic polymers worldwide (next to a handful of more popular plastics such as PET or P.P.). It is white and extremely hard (before the introduction that plasticizers added to) plastic. PVC is more common than the majority of plastics. It was synthesized in 1872 before being commercially manufactured by the B.F. Goodrich Company in the 1920s. In contrast, many other common household plastics were