Wacker-chemie Gmbh

Wacker Polymer Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

Klaus Adler

Herbert Eck

Johann Bauer

Heinrich Hopf

Franz Jodlbauer

Hermann Lutz

Dieter Gerhardinger

Manfred Hannebaum

Engelbert Pichler

Wilfried Dressler

Alois Sommerauer

Peter Ball

Klaus Kohlhammer

Klaus Marquardt

Peter Huber

Manfred Selig

Peter August

Joachim Schulze

Klaus Hafener

Wilhelm Lechner

Alex Sabel

Friedrich Heichele

Gerhard Beier

Georg Hollenbach

Erich Manner

Heinz Hefner

Erwin Gubisch

Guenter Von Au

Georg Vojtechovsky

Hans Sommer

Christoph Kemenater

Otmar Killermann

Gypsum plaster compositions with improved adhesion to plastic surfaces and metal surfaces comprise from 10 to 90% by weight of gypsum plaster, based on the total weight of the composition, and also, where appropriate, other additives, and a combination of: a) one or more water-redispersible polymer powders based on one or more vinyl ester, (meth)acrylate, vinylaromatic, olefin, 1,3-diene, or vinyl halides monomers, and optionally other monomers copolymerizable therewith; and b) one or more alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal salts of short-chain fatty acids having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon skeleton and from 1 to 4 carboxy groups, and which contain no OH groups.

Gypsum plaster compositions with improved adhesion to plastic surfaces and metal surfaces

Polymer composition for flexibilizing building materials

The invention relates to a hydrophobicizing agent for gypsum-plaster-bound construction materials comprising a substrate based on pulverulent organic or inorganic solids with a BET surface area >5 g/m and comprising one or more organopolysiloxanes having Si-bonded hydrogen (organohydropolysiloxanes) built up from units of the general formula H SiR O , where the radicals R are identical or different monovalent hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy radicals having from one to 15 carbon atoms, or are hydroxyl groups, with the proviso that at least one Si-bonded hydrogen atom per molecule is present, and a takes values from 0 to 3, and b takes values from 0 to 3.

Hydrophobicizing agents for hydrophobicizing gypsum-plaster-bound construction materials

Crosslinkable polymer compositions are provided which can be in the form of a polymer powder which is redispersible in water or as an aqueous dispersion. The polymer composition is composed of A) a copolymer of one or more comonomers of vinyl esters of straight-chain or branched alkanecarboxylic acids having 1 to 18 C atoms, acrylates or methacrylates of branched or straight-chain alcohols having 1 to 15 C atoms, dienes, olefins, vinylaromatics and vinyl halides, and of from 0.1 to 10% by weight, based on the total weight of the comonomers, of one or more ethylenically unsaturated comonomers containing epoxide groups, and B) one or more non-copolymerizable compounds having at least two epoxide groups. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the crosslinkable polymer compositions and their use in chemical products for the construction industry.

Crosslinkable polymer composition

The invention concerns a dispersion powder composition which is redispersible in water and is made from water-insoluble organic polymers, the composition being characterized in that it contains 0.1 to 30% by wt., relative to the weight of the organic polymers, of one or more silicon compounds which are dispersible in water and which have a boiling point at normal pressure of 160 degrees C., selected from the group comprising the silanes, polysilanes, oligosiloxanes, carbosilanes, polycarbosilanes, carbosiloxanes, polycarbosiloxanes and polysilylenedisiloxanes. The invention also concerns methods for manufacturing such compounds and their use.

Redispersible dispersion powder composition, process for its preparation and its use

The invention concerns a dispersion powder composition which is redispersible in water and is made from water-insoluble organic polymers, the composition being characterized in that it contains 0.1 to 30% by wt., relative to the weight of the organic polymers, of one ormore silicon compounds which are dispersible in water and which have a boiling point at normal pressure of 160&deg; C., selected from the group comprising the silanes, polysilanes, oligosiloxanes, carbosilanes, polycarbosilanes, carbosiloxanes, polycarbosiloxanes and polysilylenedisiloxanes. The invention also concerns methods for manufacturing such compositions and their use.

Process for the preparation of a redispersible dispersion powder composition

Redispersible, silicon-modified dispersion powder composition, process

The invention provides a process for water-proofing gypsum materials which comprises adding, to a pulverulent gypsum plaster composition containing from 10 to 90% by weight of gypsum based on the total weight of the composition, a mixture of a) from 1.0 to 15% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition, of one or more dispersion powders redispersible in water and based on vinyl acetate copolymers with ethylene and/or vinyl esters of C.sub.5 -C.sub.15 -monocarboxylic acids, styrene copolymers with acrylic esters of alcohols having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, vinyl chloride copolymers with ethylene and/or vinyl esters of C.sub.2 -C.sub.15 monocarboxylic acids, and b) from 0.05 to 5.0% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition, of one or more thixotropic additives from the group consisting of polyacrylic acids and their salts, smectites, bentonites, carboxymethylcelluloses and melamine-formaldehyde condensates.

Process for waterproofing gypsum materials

A novel process for the preparation of a readily dispersible, pourable dispersion powder comprising emulsion polymerizing in the presence of a free radial initiator a mixture of 1 to 50% by weight of ethylene and 99 to 50% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated comonomer phase comprising at least one member of the group consisting of (a) 60 to 100% by weight of vinyl chloride, (b) 0 to 40% by weight of monoethylically unsaturated, oil-soluble monomers, (c) 0 to 10% by weight of monoethylenically unsaturated water-soluble monomers having functional groups and (d) 0 to 5% by weight of oil-soluble monomers that are monoethylenically unsaturated and have functional groups or are multiple ethylenically unsaturated and optionally a protective colloid and/or emulsifier at an ethylene pressure of 10 to 150 bar to obtain an aqueous dispersion of a vinyl chloride-ethyelene copolymer, optionally adding to the aqueous dispersion (e) 0 to 40% by weight, based on the VCE-polymer, of at least one water-soluble substance having a T.sub.g .gtoreq.60.degree. C., (f) 0 to 1% by weight, based on the VCE-polymer, of an antifoaming agent, and (g) 0 to 30% by weight, based on the total weight of polymer constituents, of a finely divided antiblocking agent and spray drying or freeze drying the aqueous dispersion to obtain the readily redispersible, pourable powder of a vinyl chloride-ethylene copolymer and the powder produced by the said process and improved coatings, paints, glues and adhesives containing the said redispersible powder.

Process for emulsion polymerization

A process for the production of an aqueous dispersion stabilized by a water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol and based on copolymers that comprise at least 60% by weight of monomer units selected from the group consisting of esters of acrylic acid, esters of methacrylic acid, styrene, and substituted styrene and mixtures thereof, consisting essentially of subjecting a stabilized dispersion of a monomer mixture containing at least 60% by weight of monomers selected from the group consisting of esters of acrylic acid, esters of methacrylic acid, styrene, substituted styrene and mixtures thereof, said dispersion being an aqueous dispersion stabilized by a water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol, to polymerization at a temperature in excess of 60.degree. C. in the presence of a free-radical-forming catalyst selected from the group consisting of (a) organic catalysts soluble in the monomers and also being at least partially water-soluble, optionally in combination with water-soluble reducing agents and (b) peroxosulfur catalysts, in such a manner that, during the entire duration of the reaction, said monomer mixture is supplied at such a rate by metering in the monomer mixture in the form of a previously obtained emulsion, that the monomer concentration is maintained at less than 20% by weight, based on the total weight of the reaction mixture, and recovering said stabilized dispersion; as well as the aqueous dispersion produced by the process, the use of the aqueous dispersions as a binder in dispersion dyes and adhesives, the said binder having increased resistance against hydrolysis on drying due to the special manufacturing process.

Process for the manufacture of copolymers having increased resistance

Stabilized aqueous dispersions of vinyl chloride polymer having at least 25% by weight of vinyl chloride units in the polymer and having K values of between 20 and 80, having added as a stabilizing agent 0.3-6% by weight of substances selected from the group of compounds according to the general formula ##STR1## wherein n has the meaning of from 0 to 2 or water-soluble salts thereof. The invention also relates to a process of producing the stabilized products by adding the stabilizing agent after polymerization in aqueous dispersion, and to the use of the stabilized dispersions in binders, coating compositions, paints, adhesives, textile auxiliaries and paper-coating compositions.

Stabilized aqueous dispersions of vinyl chloride polymers

Organosilanes containing aliphatic double bonds and a process for preparing the same which comprises reacting an organic compound having more than one aliphatic double bond with a silane having an Si-bonded hydrogen atom and at least one hydrolyzable group and/or at least one group capable of being hydrolyzed more readily than the Si-bonded hydrogen atom in the presence of a catalyst which promotes the addition of Si-bonded hydrogen atoms to aliphatic double bonds. These organosilanes are used as reinforcing agents for compositions containing organic polymers which are crosslinked by means of sulfur or free radicals.

Process for the preparation and use of silanes

An adhesion assistant or binder composition for bonding polyolefin surfaces with metal surfaces comprising an aqueous dispersion of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer from 0.5 to 5 parts by weight based on 100 parts of the copolymer of a cross-linking peroxide compound and from 1 to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts of the copolymer of a low-molecular-weight 1,2-polybutadiene; as well as a process for producing composite bodies by heat and pressure utilizing the above adhesion assistant between polyolefin surfaces and metal surfaces.

Adhesive composition and method for bonding polyolefin surfaces with

A readily dryable adhesive binder for particulated rubber and/or plastics compositions comprising from 1% to 10% by weight of a water-solubleformaldehyde polycondensation resin, from 0.5% to 5% by weight of formaldehyde or a compound liberating formaldehyde, and from 85% to 98.5% by weight of a film-forming plastics dispersion; as well as a composition forming a resilient covering comprising from 40% to 75% by weight of particulated rubber and/or plastics and from 25% to 60% by weight of the above adhesive binder.

Particulated rubber and plastics coverings and binders therefor

A process for the production of polyvinyl chloride graft copolymers from ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymers and vinyl chloride by graft polymerization in the aqueous phase consisting essentially of adding a water-soluble, free-radical-forming polymerization catalyst to an aqueous dispersion of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer optionally containing additional emulsifiers and/or dispersion stabilizers, heating said dispersion to the polymerization temperature, adding vinyl chloride gas above said agitated heated dispersion at such rate that the pressure is below the saturation pressure of vinyl chloride at the polymerization temperature, and recovering said polyvinyl chloride grafted copolymer.

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