Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo

Kyowa Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Makoto Kunieda

Kenji Ninomiya

Hiroshi Takida

Takamasa Moriyama

Yoshimi Akamatu

Koji Izumi

Tomoyuki Yamamoto

Koji Kita

Ikko Matsui

Sinji Miyake

Hiroki Goan

The invention provides pellets of a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer which are excellent in feedability, cause little fluctuation of extruder torque or discharge during molding, and yield shaped articles with high dimensional accuracy such as the high accuracy of form and thickness. The pellets of the invention are such that the differential curve representing the magnitude of change in the cumulative pore volume curve generated by measuring the fractional volume of surface pores by the mercury intrusion method has no peak within the pore diameter range of 1&times;10 &tilde;1&times;10 &angst;.

Saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer pellets and method for their production

A method of drying saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers which includes melting and kneading a mixture including one or more saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer species and having a water content of 5 to 60% by weight until the mixture has a water content of less then 5% by weight.

Method of drying saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers

In the method of continuously producing pellets by continuously extruding a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVOH) solution in a strand form into a coagulation liquid and then cutting the resulting strand, the ratio between the weight X of the coagulation liquid and the weight Y of the strand of the saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, namely the ratio X/Y, is set at 50 to 10,000. The coagulation liquid preferably contains 1 to 10,000 ppm of a carboxylic acid, 1 to 50,000 ppm of a carboxylic acid ester, or 1 to 15,000 ppm of a carboxylic acid salt. It is preferred as well that the water content of the continuously produced EVOH pellets be adjusted to 20 to 80% by weight and then brought into contact with an aqueous solution, having at least one boron compound, an acetic acid salt and a phosphoric acid compound.

Process for preparing pellets of saponified ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer

The saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVOH) resin composition of the present invention is a composition comprising a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVOH) (A) having an ethylene content of 20-60 mole percent and a saponification degree of not less than 90 mole percent, magnesium acetate or/and calcium acetate (B) as an essential component and at least one of acetic acid (C), a boron compound (D) and sodium acetate (E) as an optional component, and is characterized in that the contents of the respective components in said composition, relative to 100 parts by weight of EVOH (A), are as follows: magnesium acetate or/and calcium acetate (B) 0.001-0.02 part by weight on the metal basis; acetic acid (C) 0-0.05 part by weight; the boron compound (D) 0-1 part by weight on the boron basis; and sodium acetate (E) 0-0.1 part by weight on the metal basis; and that the weight loss when said composition is maintained at a temperature (T&plus;70)&deg; C. higher by 70 &deg; C. than the melting point T&deg; C. of said EVOH (A) for 1 hour is not more than 10% by weight. The laminate of the present invention is characterized in that a layer of a thermoplastic resin is disposed at least one side of a layer consisting of the EVOH resin composition mentioned above.

Saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin composition and laminate having a layer of said resin composition

Hydrous pellets of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer hydrolyzate, production thereof and moldings from such hydrous pellets

Resin composition, process for preparing the same, and laminate containing layer of said resin composition

A halogen-containing thermoplastic resin composition comprising a halogen-containing thermoplastic resin (A), a metallic soap (B) and an ash- and alkali metal-lean ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer hydrolysate (C) having an ethylene content of 20 to 75 mole percent, a degree of saponification not less than 50 mole percent, an ash content not exceeding 300 ppm and an alkali metal content not exceeding 200 ppm, the proportions of (B) and (C) based on 100 parts of weight by (A) being 0.1 to 5 parts by weight and 0.1 to 5 parts by weight, respectively. The composition may further include, in addition to (A), (B), and (C) mentioned above, at least one compound (D) selected from the group consisting of .beta.-diketone compounds, organic phosphorous esters and aminocarboxylic acid compounds, the proportion of (D) based on 100 parts by weight of (A) being 0.05 to 5 parts by weight, and/or at least one compound (E) selected from the group consisting of phenol derivatives and epoxy compounds, the proportion of (E) based on 100 parts by weight of (A) being 0.01 to 5 parts by weight.

Halogen-containing thermoplastic resin composition

A halogen-containing thermoplastic resin composition comprising a halogen-containing thermoplastic resin (A), a metallic soap (B) and an ash- and alkali metal-lean ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer hydrolysate (C) having an ethylene content of 20 to 75 mole percent, a degree of saponification not less than 50 mole percent, an ash content not exceeding 300 ppm and an alkali metal content not exceeding 200 ppm, the proportions of (B) and (C) based on 100 parts of weight by (A) being 0.1 to 5 parts by weight and 0.1 to 5 parts by weight, respectively. The composition may further include, in addition to (A), (B) and (C) mentioned above, at least one compound (D) selected from the group consisting of .beta.-diketone compounds, organic phosphorous esters and aminocarboxylic acid compounds, the proportion of (D) based on 100 parts by weight of (A) being 0.05 to 5 parts by weight, and/or at least one compound (E) selected from the group consisting of phenol derivatives and epoxy compounds, the proportion of (E) based on 100 parts by weight of (A) being 0.01 to 5 parts by weight.

A halogen-containing thermoplastic resin composition comprising a halogen-containing thermoplastic resin (A), a metal soap (B), an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer hydrolysate (C), and a hydrotalcite type solid solution (D) of the general formula

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