About us
PVCMed Alliance is The European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers' value chain platform to raise awareness and promote informed decisions about the use of PVC in healthcare. The Alliance was established in 2012.
Our vision
The vision that informs PVCMed Alliance’s work is of a healthcare environment that best benefits patients and healthcare professionals. Such an environment offers the finest PVC-based products and applications with the required properties and excellence needed to provide top quality health care while being environmentally sustainable.
Our mission
Represent the PVC resin & plasticiser producers and PVC converters
active in healthcare applications
Proactively engage in PVC & healthcare related debates
Communicate about PVC healthcare applications
and their fundamental role in the quality of healthcare, safety and cost-efficiency
Provide a focal point for information and dialogue
with healthcare professionals and managers, medical device companies and regulators
Encourage recycling activities
for PVC-based healthcare waste
Meet the team
If you are interested in supporting the PVCMed Alliance or would like to receive more information, please contact info@pvcmed.org.
Spokesperson
Brigitte Dero
Brigitte is Managing Director of VinylPlus since 2014 and Managing Director of the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM) since 2011. Brigitte holds a PhD in Sciences (Molecular Biology) from the University of Brussels (ULB).
Project Manager
Ole Grøndahl Hansen
Ole Grøndahl Hansen is a Master of Arts in literature from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1995 General Manager of PVC Information Council Denmark. Ole has been working with PVC-related topics for almost a quarter of a century. Main areas of interest are the use of PVC in medical applications, recycling, and PVC in art and design. Since 2012 Project Manager of PVCMed Alliance.
Technical Manager
Vincent Stone
Vincent has joined the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM) in 2018, where he is in charge to develop the activities around the ECVM application platforms (PVC4Pipes, PVCMed, PVC4Cables), and is actively involved in the certification and medical recycling activities of VinylPlus. Vincent graduated in 1991 in Plastics Engineering at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, where he also earned a PhD. He later earned a part-time MBA degree from the Solvay Brussels School Economics & Management.
PVCMed Alliance is part of the ECVM family
PVCMed Alliance is organised under the umbrella of the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM). ECVM represents the six leading European PVC resin manufacturers, accounting for around 75% of the PVC resin manufactured in Europe.ECVM is a division of PlasticsEurope, the trade association representing the plastic manufacturers in Europe.
A founding member of VinylPlus®, ECVM is committed to sustainable development, and to address and promote health safety and environmental best practices over the PVC life cycle.
Besides PVC4Pipes, ECVM has two other value chain platforms: PVC4Pipes for PVC in piping systems and PVC4Cables for PVC in cables.
