Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kaneka Corporation

Other

Kaneka Belgium N.v.

Yasuhiro Miki

Hideo Yasui

Wataru Okada

Akira Takaki

Yasushi Nakanishi

Karin Janssen

Mamoru Kadokura

Kenichi Senda

Toragoro Mitani

Noriko Sakashita

The present invention provides an aqueous dispersion of biodegradable polyester, which has excellent film forming properties and provides a resin coating film which is flexible, has favorable elongation and is strong to folding, when applied in coatings, adhesives, fiber processing, sheet film processing and paper processing. More specifically, the present invention provides an aqueous dispersion of biodegradable polyester comprising a copolymer of 3HB and 3HH, which has a flexural modulus of 100 to 1500 MPa and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 3,000,000, wherein the copolymer within the aqueous dispersion has an average particle size of 0.1 to 50 &#x3bc;m.

Aqueous dispersion of biodegradable polyester and process for preparing the same

There is provided a vinyl chloride resin composition, which is excellent in processability and can produce a processed article having excellent physical property or a formed molding having excellent property. A processing aid having specific viscosity of at least 0.5 is combined with a vinyl chloride resin, wherein the aid is obtained by polymerizing 1 to 50 parts by weight of a monomer mixture (B) comprising 0 to 49% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 51 to 100% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of a methacrylate ester except methyl methacrylate and an acrylate ester, and 0 to 20% by weight of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, in the presence of a latex of a (co)polymer having specific viscosity of at least &#x3b7;0.7, which is obtained by polymerizing in emulsion 99 to 50 parts by weight of a monomer mixture (A) comprising 51 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 0 to 49% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of a methacrylate ester except methyl methacrylate and an acrylate ester, and 0 to 20% by weight of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, wherein the total amount of (A) and (B) is 100 parts by weight.

Processing aid for vinyl chloride resin and vinyl chloride resin composition

A vinyl chloride resin composition having a greatly improved processability without lowering the transparency wherein the gelation property of a vinyl chloride resin is improved with greatly decreased generation of ungelled substance; which comprises a vinyl chloride resin and 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of a processing aid per 100 parts by weight of said vinyl chloride resin, wherein said processing aid is a polymer prepared by polymerizing (B) 70 to 97 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising 60 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 0 to 40% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of an alkyl acrylate and an alkyl methacrylate different from methyl methacrylate and 0 to 10% by weight of other vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, in the presence of a latex prepared by emulsion-polymerizing (A) 3 to 30 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising 0 to 50% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 50 to 100% by weight of an alkyl acrylate and 0 to 20% by weight of other vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, the total amount of said mixtures (A) and (B) being 100 parts by weight, and said polymer has a specific viscosity of at least 1 measured at 30&deg; C. with respect to a solution of 0.4 g of said polymer in 100 ml of benzene.

Vinyl chloride resin composition

A vinyl chloride resin composition having a greatly improved processability without lowering the transparency wherein the gelation property of a vinyl chloride resin is improved with greatly decreased generation of ungelled substance; which comprises a vinyl chloride resin and 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of a processing aid per 100 parts by weight of said vinyl chloride resin, wherein said processing aid is a polymer prepared by polymerizing (B) 40 to 94 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising 60 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 0 to 40% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of an alkyl acrylate and an alkyl methacrylate different from methyl methacrylate and 0 to 10% by weight of other vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, in the presence of a first latex prepared by emulsion-polymerizing (A) 3 to 30 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising 0 to 50% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 50 to 100% by weight of an alkyl acrylate and 0 to 20% by weight of other vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, and polymerizing (C) 3 to 30 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising 0 to 50% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 50 to 100% by weight of an alkyl acrylate and 0 to 20% by weight of other vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith in the presence of the resulting second latex, the total amount of said mixtures (A), (B) and (C) being 100 parts by weight.

The present invention provides a method for recovering polymer agglomerates in the form of dry powders or granules comprising steps of:

Method of recovering polymer agglomerates as dry powders or granules

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing coagulated grains from polymer latex and apparatus for exercising this method, said method being characterized in that a swirl of polymer latex is produced in tank, while holding it at a temperature lower than the softening temperature of the polymer latex particles and while letting the same polymer latex as said polymer latex fall down into the aforementioned swirl liquid surface, a coagulant is added into said latex flowing-down liquid, thereby letting the coagulant disperse and scatter into the latex in the tank; thereafter, with said coagulant thus scattered as the seeds, coagulated layers are grown on their outer surfaces. According to this invention, nearly spherical coagulated grains with a uniform grain size may be obtained, while suppressing possible formation of massive coagulated matters.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing coagulated grains from polymer

The present invention provides polymer latex grains having latex particles which compose each coagulated grain compacted therein in the state of not being mutually fused; said grains are obtained by the following steps of (A)-(E):

Compacted agglomerates of polymer latex particles

Disclosed is a method of producing coagulated colloidal particles with close-packed structure which comprises;

Method of producing coagulated colloidal particles

A process for producing a coagulated latex is disclosed which comprises spraying into a coagulating chamber a suspension liquid or a high polymer latex to disperse as droplets, simultaneously spraying a coagulant into the chamber in the form of gas or mist, introducing into the chamber super-heated steam to heat dispersed droplets of the suspension liquid or the high polymer latex and the coagulant, collecting coagulated particles in a film-like flow of water or an organic solvent flowing downward along side walls and the bottom of the chamber, and recovering the coagulated particles. Also disclosed is an apparatus used for practicing the foregoing process which comprises a spraying means of a suspension liquid or a high polymer latex into a coagulating chamber, a spraying means of a coagulant, a distributing means of a downward flow liquid which forms a film-like flow of water or an organic solvent covering side walls of the chamber, a means for heating and rectification by which super-heated steam is introduced and the flow of atmosphere in the chamber is rectified, a gas-liquid contacting means which brings the downward flow liquid into contact with an exhaust gas, and a means for removing slurry containing coagulated particles.

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Settsu, Japan

Yasuhiro Miki