The Texas winter storm of 2021 was the first toppling domino that triggered a series of changes throughout the municipal industry’s supply chain.
When power was lost along the Texas Gulf Coast in February 2021, chemical plants in the area were forced to shut down slowing the production of PVC. Then, combined with manufacturing setbacks that resulted from COVID-19 closures and hurricanes pelting the coast of Louisiana, the past year was the perfect storm of disruption for plastic producers, and in the business of laying pipe, that disturbance is being felt full-force.Municipalities have grown to rely on PVC plastic as a
