Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.

Masanari Fujita

Yasuji Shichijo

Masayuki Nozawa

Akifumi Hayakawa

Yoshitaka Sakamaki

Toshio Fujita

Koji Hirashima

Hiroyuki Shibata

Naoto Takeda

This invention relates to a process for preparing rubber-modified aromatic vinyl resin compositions by polymerizing a raw material solution containing 3 to 20% by weight of rubbery polymer, 50 to 97% by weight of an aromatic vinyl monomer, and 0 to 30% by weight of a solvent until the conversion of said aromatic vinyl monomer falls in the range from 30 to 70%, adding a (meth)acrylate monomer or its mixture with other monomers to the reaction mixture so that the ratio by weight of the aromatic vinyl monomer in the reaction mixture to the (meth)acrylate monomer becomes 85/15 to 50/50, continuing the polymerization, and devolatilizing to remove the unreacted monomers, solvent, and the like. It is possible by this process to prepare easily and economically rubber-modified aromatic vinyl resin compositions of easy processability, good surface properties in respect to appearance and scratch resistance, and good balance between impact resistance and rigidity.

Process for preparation of rubber-modified aromatic vinyl resin compositions

Rubber-modified aromatic vinyl resin composition and process for the

Rubber-modified styrenic resin composition

Process for producing rubber-modified styrene resin

Rubber-modified styrene resins with excellent impact resistance are prepared by formulating a feed from a styrene-based monomer, or a mixture thereof with comonomers and high-viscosity rubber, an organic peroxide, and, if necessary, all inert organic solvent, preheating and continuously supplying the feed to one end of a plug flow type reactor equipped with an agitator, performing the preliminary polymerization to a conversion sufficiently high for the transformation of the rubber in the feed into particles while controlling the weight average particle diameter of the rubber particles to 0.8 to 5 .mu.m, withdrawing the prepolymerized feed from the other end of the reactor, and supplying it to a following plug flow type reactor for continuous enhancement of tile conversion.

Process for preparing rubber-modified styrene resins

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