Kaneka Corporation

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Kaneka Texas Corporation

Tokyo Institute of Technology

National Research and Development Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Takahiko Sugaya

Riichi Nishimura

Kazuhisa Tajima

Akira Takaki

Norio Nagata

Noriyuki Suzuki

Tetsuya Minami

Fuminobu Kitayama

Takeshi Kikutani

Shingo Kobayashi

Wataru Takarada

Hitoshi Nakamura

Koichi Suzaki

Disclosed herein is a soil-borne disease control method capable of simply suppressing a soil-borne pathogen. The method for controlling a soil-borne disease includes applying at least one polyhydroxyalkanoic acid having a structure represented by the following formula (1) to soil:[&#x2014;CHR&#x2014;CH&#x2014;CO&#x2014;O&#x2014;]&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)(wherein R is an alkyl group represented by CHand n is an integer of 1 or more but 15 or less).

Soil-borne disease control method, soil for plant cultivation use, and soil-borne disease control agent

An object of the present invention is to improve spinnability, productivity, and tensile strength of a polyester fiber containing poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate). By spinning the polyester resin containing the poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) at a high spinning velocity, the spinnability, productivity, and tensile strength of the polyester fiber can be improved.

Polyester fiber

A resin composition for capstock, comprising 100 to 30 parts by weight of an impact resistance modifier having a multilayer structure, and 0 to 70 parts by weight of a methyl methacrylate (co)polymer containing 50 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 50 to 0% by weight of a monomer which is copolymerizable therewith, wherein the total amount of the impact resistance modifier and the methyl methacrylate (co)polymer is 100 parts by weight, wherein the outer layer of said impact resistance modifier and/or said methyl methacrylate copolymer is copolymerized with 0.5 to 40% by weight of a reactive monomer based on the total amount of the impact resistance modifier and the methyl methacrylate (co)polymer as a polymer component, and wherein the homopolymer of said reactive monomer has an SP value of 9.8 (cal/cm)/or more.

Resin composition for capstock

An acrylic resin composition with excellent impact resistance, weatherability, processability and low gloss is provided. The acrylic resin composition comprises, (A) 10 to 40 parts by weight of a high molecular weight acrylic (co)polymer which is a one-step or multi-step polymer containing 72 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 0 to 28% by weight of a copolymerizable monomer, the (co)polymer having a specific viscosity of at least 0.5 (solvent: toluene, concentration: 0.4%, temperature: 30&#xb0; C.), wherein a polymer layer obtained in one of the steps contains at least 72% by weight of methyl methacrylate, has a specific viscosity of at least 0.5 and makes up at least 55% by weight of the total weight of the high molecular weight acrylic (co)polymer (A); (B) 0 to 80 parts by weight of an acrylic (co)polymer containing 50 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 0 to 50% by weight of a copolymerizable monomer, the acrylic (co)polymer having a specific viscosity of less than 0.5; (C) 10 to 90 parts by weight of an impact modifier with a multilayer structure, wherein the total of (A), (B) and (C) is 100 parts by weight and the composition has a melt flow index of 0.35 g/10 minutes to 1.4 g/10 minutes (230&#xb0; C., 3.8 kg load).

Acrylic resin composition

An acrylic resin composition suitable for the preparation of capstock for siding panels and having excellent impact resistance, weatherability and processability and a low gloss, which comprises 30 to 100% by weight of an impact modifier having a multilayer structure and 0 to 70% by weight of a methyl methacrylate homopolymer or copolymer and whose MFI (melt flow index measured according to ASTM D-1238 at 230&deg; C. and a load of 3.8 kg) is not more than 0.35 g/10 minutes.

An acrylic resin composition suitable for the preparation of capstock for siding panels and having excellent impact resistance, weatherability and processability and a low gloss, which comprises 30 to 100% by weight of an impact modifier having a multilayer structure and 0 to 70% by weight of a methyl methacrylate homopolymer or copolymer and whose MFI (melt flow index measured according to ASTM D-1238 at 230&deg; C. and a load of 3.8 kg) is no more than 0.2 g/10 minutes.

There is provided a modifier composition for a methacrylate resin, which can stably give a molded article excellent in strength without deteriorating transparency, color tone and appearance thereof under a wide range of injection molding conditions. A modifier composition for a methacrylate resin of the present invention comprises an impact modifier, a polymer processing aid and a reducing compound, wherein an amount of the impact modifier to the polymer processing aid is 95/5 to 80/20 in weight, and an amount of the reducing compound is 0.25 to 1.25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the impact modifier and the polymer processing aid.

Methacrylic resin modifier composition less dependent on processing conditions

A methacrylic resin composition having excellent transparency, appearance, weatherability, gloss, impact resistance and processability, which comprises a methacrylic resin and a graft copolymer having a multilayer structure prepared by polymerizing a monomer component comprising an alkyl methacrylate such as methyl methacrylate as a main component in the presence of a chain transfer agent to form an innermost layer of a crosslinked methacrylic polymer, polymerizing a monomer component comprising an alkyl acrylate such as butyl acrylate as a main component in the presence of the innermost layer polymer to form an intermediate layer and subsequently polymerizing a monomer component comprising an alkyl methacrylate such as methyl methacrylate as a main component to form an outermost layer on the intermediate layer.

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