Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Tadashi Ueda

Takayuki Aoshima

Toyomasa Hoshino

Toshiyuki Hamano

Shinichiro Matsuzono

Hiroyuki Kaneko

A method of producing an aliphatic polyester resin by continuously esterifying and melt polycondensing an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and an aliphatic diol; and at least one aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid; and at least one of an aliphatic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and cis- and trans-isomers of aliphatic unsaturated tricarboxylic acids, wherein the total amount of the at least one aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid and the at least one of aliphatic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and cis- and trans-isomers of aliphatic unsaturated tricarboxylic acids is from 0.0010 to 0.50 mol % of the total amount of the aliphatic polyester resin; and the total amount of the at least one aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid is from 1.0 to 7.0 in terms of a molar ratio to the total amount of the at least one of aliphatic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and cis- and trans-isomers of aliphatic unsaturated tricarboxylic acids.

Aliphatic polyester resin and its production method

An aliphatic polyester resin having excellent moldability and its production method are provided. When the amount of specific structural units contained in an aliphatic polyester resin is adjusted to an optimum amount, an aliphatic polyester resin having sufficient melt tension at the time of molding and excellent moldability than in the past and its production method is provided.

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Tadashi Ueda