Toyo Soda Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Shigeru Awazawa

Mineo Nagano

Koji Tanaka

Michio Saitoh

Tatsuhiko Niwa

Disclosed is a process for polymerizing vinyl chloride, alone or in combination with a comonomer, in the vapor phase maintained at a pressure lower than the vapor pressure of the monomer at the polymerization temperature employed, and in the presence of the specified seed vinyl chloride polymer particles. The seed polymer particles used are prepared by polymerizing vinyl chloride, along or in combination with a comonomer, under bulk conditions, in the presence of 0.001% to 2% by weight, based on the weight of the monomer, of a cellulose ether soluble in the monomer.

Process for polymerizing vinyl chloride

A process for preparing a polyvinylchloride composition by polymerizing vinyl chloride or vinyl chloride and a comonomer comprises polymerizing vinyl chloride or a mixture of vinyl chloride and a comonomer in the gaseous phase under a polymerization pressure which is less than the saturated vapor pressure of vinyl chloride at the polymerization temperature, in the presence of additives required for later formation of a molded product.

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Shigeru Awazawa