Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kureha Kagaku Kogyo K.k.

Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kureha Kagaku Kagyo K.k.

Polyplastics Co., Ltd.

Kureha Kagaku Kogho K.k.

Kureha Kabaku Kogyo K.k.

Zenya Shiiki

Takayuki Katto

Yo Iizuka

Toshitaka Kouyama

Yoshikatsu Satake

Yukichika Kawakami

Takashi Kaneko

Takao Iwasaki

Ken Kashiwadate

Toshiya Mizuno

Hiroyuki Endo

Shinji Yamamoto

Masahito Tada

Mitsuru Hoshino

Nobuo Sato

Yutaka Kobayashi

Yasumasa Komatsu

Yukio Ichikawa

Makoto Fukuda

Yasuo Sakaguchi

Toshio Enoki

Masaaki Nakao

Kunihiko Katori

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Akio Kobayashi

Tsuneo Okamoto

Hiroshi Nagai

Toshio Hosokawa

Hatsuo Saito

Sirou Suzuki

Yukichira Kawakami

Harunobu Egawa

Gas-barrier, multi-layer hollow container

A composite gas barrier film having a layer structure comprises a thermoplastic resin film laminated on at least one side of a film formed from polyglycolic acid containing at least 60 wt. % of a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1):

Gas-barrier composite film

The invention provides an injection-molded product of polyglycolic acid obtainable by molding a thermoplastic resin material at an injection temperature ranging from the melting point, Tm of the polymer to 255&deg; C., wherein the thermoplastic resin material comprises polyglycolic acid having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1):

Production process for injection-molded product of polyglycolic acid

The invention provides a stretch blow molded container formed from a thermoplastic resin material which comprises polyglycolic acid having (a) a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## (b) a melt viscosity, .eta.* [as measured at a temperature of (the melting point, Tm of the polymer+20.degree. C.) and a shear rate of 100/sec] of 500-100,000 Pa.s; (c) a melting point, Tm of at least 180.degree. C.; (d) a melt enthalpy, .DELTA.Hm of at least 20 J/g; and (e) a density of at least 1.50 g/cm.sup.3 as measured in an unoriented, crystallized form, wherein the stretch blow molded container has tensile strength (in a circumferential direction) of at least 100 MPa and a carbon dioxide permeability (as measured at a temperature of 23.degree. C. and 80% relative humidity; in terms of the thickness of 50 .mu.m) of 300 cc/m.sup.2.day.atm or smaller at the body sidewall thereof, and a production process thereof.

Stretch blow molded container and production process thereof

An injection-molded product is obtained by injection molding a thermoplastic resin material. The thermoplastic resin material comprises a polyglycolic acid homopolymer or copolymer having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## in a proportion not lower than 70 wt. % and a repeating unit derived from at least one cyclic comonomer selected from the group consisting of ethylene oxalate and lactide in a proportion not higher than 30 wt. %, and having the following physical properties: (a) a melt viscosity, n*, measured at a temperature of the melting point, Tm, of the polyglycolic acid homopolymer or copolymer +20.degree. C. and a shear rate of 1,000/sec, of 30-10,000 Pa.multidot.s; (b) a melting point, Tm, of at least 150.degree. C.; (c) a melt enthalpy, .DELTA.Hm, of at least 20 J/g; and (d) a density of at least 1.50 g/cm.sup.3 as measured in an unoriented, crystallized form. The injection-molded product has Izod impact strength, unnotched, 25.degree. C., of at least 20 kJ/m.sup.2, tensile strength of a least 60 MPa, tensile elongation of at least 5%, flexural strength of at least 100 MPa, and flexural modulus of at least 5 GPa, and is obtained by injection molding at an injection temperature ranging from the melting point, Tm, of the homopolymer or copolymer to 255.degree. C.

Injection-molded product of polyglycolic acid and production process

The invention provides a stretch blow molded container formed from a thermoplastic resin material which comprises polyglycolic acid having

The invention provides a polyglycolic acid sheet obtainable by melt-extruding a thermoplastic resin material into a sheet in a temperature range of from the melting point, Tm of the polymer to 255.degree. C., wherein the thermoplastic resin material comprises polyglycolic acid having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## and the following physical properties: (a) the melt viscosity, .eta.* �as measured at a temperature of (the melting point, Tm of the polymer+20.degree. C.) and a shear rate of 100/sec! being 500-100,000 Pa.s;

Polyglycolic acid sheet and production process thereof

The invention provides an oriented polyglycolic acid film formed from a thermoplastic resin material which comprises polyglycolic acid having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## and the following physical properties: (a) the melt viscosity, .rho.* �as measured at a temperature of (the melting point, Tm of the polymer+20.degree. C.) and a shear rate of 100/sec! being 500-100,000 Pa.s;

Oriented polyglycolic acid film and production process thereof

The invention provides an economical and efficient process for preparing a dimeric cyclic ester of an .alpha.-hydroxycarboxylic acid by depolymerizing a corresponding .alpha.-hydroxycarboxylic acid oligomer, which comprises the steps of (1) heating a mixture containing the .alpha.-hydroxycarboxylic acid oligomer and at least one high-boiling polar organic solvent having a boiling point within a range of 230.degree.-450.degree. C. to a temperature, at which the depolymerization of the oligomer takes place, under atmospheric pressure or reduced pressure, (2) dissolving the oligomer in the solvent until a residual rate of a melt phase of the oligomer reaches 0.5 or lower, (3) further continuing the heating at the temperature, at which the depolymerization of the oligomer takes place, to depolymerize the oligomer, (4) distilling out the dimeric cyclic ester formed together with the high-boiling polar organic solvent, and (5) recovering the dimeric cyclic ester from the distillate. The invention also provides a process for purifying a crude dimeric cyclic ester of an .alpha.-hydroxycarboxylic acid.

Preparation process and purification process of dimeric cyclic ester of

The invention provides poly(ethylene oxalate) containing recurring units represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## in a proportion of at least 60 basal mol %, wherein (a) the solution viscosity (.eta..sub.inh) is at least 0.25 dl/g as measured at 30.degree. C. and a polymer concentration of 0.40 g/dl in a 4:1 (by weight) mixed solvent of m-chlorophenol and 1,2,4-trichloro-benzene,

Poly(ethylene oxalate), product formed of molded therefrom and

Disclosed herein are an aromatic thioether ketone/thioether sulfone random copolymer comprising phenylene thioether ketone recurring units (I) and phenylene thioether sulfone recurring units (II), (a) the compositional ratio (I:II) of the recurring units (I) to the recurring units (II) ranging from 98:2 to 65:35, (b) the solution viscosity (.eta..sub.inh) being at least 0.3 dl/g, (c) the melt crystallization time (.tau.) being at least 3 minutes, (d) the melting point (Tm) being 300.degree.-350.degree. C., (e) the glass transition temperature being at least 125.degree. C., (f) the retention (400.degree. C./20 min) of melt crystallization enthalpy (.DELTA.Hmc) being at least 60%, and (g) the average particle size being at least 0.1 mm, and the production process thereof.

Production process for aromatic thioether ketone/thioether sulfone

Aromatic thioether ketone/thioether sulfone copolymer products

Disclosed herein are an aromatic thioether ketone/thioether sulfone random copolymer comprising phenylene thioether ketone recurring units (I) and phenylene thioether sulfone recurring units (II), (a) the compositional ratio (I:II) of the recurring units (I) to the recurring units (II) ranging from 98:2 to 65:35, (b) the solution viscosity (.eta..sub.inh) being at least 0.3 dl/g, (c) the melt crystallization time (f) being at least 3 minutes, (d) the melting point (Tm) being 300.degree.-350.degree. C., (e) the glass transition temperature being at least 125.degree. C., (f) the retention (400.degree. C./20 min) of melt crystallization enthalpy (.DELTA.Hmc) being at least 60%, and (g) the average particle size being at least 0.1 mm, and the production process thereof.

Aromatic thioether ketone/thioether sulfone copolymer and production

A granular, high-melt-stable poly(arylene thioetherketone) has a solution viscosity (.eta..sub.inh) of at least 0.30 dl/g, a retention (400.degree. C./20 min) of melt crystallization enthalpy (.DELTA.Hmc) of at least 60%, a melting point of 340.degree.-360.degree. C., a glass transition temperature of at least 125.degree. C. and an average particle diameter of 0.1-2 mm. A production process of a granular, high-melt-stable poly(arylene thioether-ketone) comprises reacting an alkali metal sulfide and a dihalogenated aromatic compound consisting principally of a 4,4'-dihalobenzophenone in an organic amide solvent containing water. In the first step, (1) the ratio of the amount of the charged dihalogenated aromatic compound to the amount of the charged alkali metal sulfide is controlled to 0.95-1.2 (mole/mole), (2) the ratio of the water content to the amount of the charged organic amide solvent is controlled to 1-15 (mole/kg), and (3) the reaction is conducted for 3-30 hours at 180.degree.-260.degree. C. to form a prepolymer having a solution viscosity of at least 0.15 dl/g. In the second step, (1) the ratio of the water content to the amount of the charged organic amide solvent in the reaction mixture is controlled to 7-15 (mole/kg), and (2) the reaction mixture containing the prepolymer is reacted further for 0.05-10 hours in a temperature range of from more than 300.degree. C. to less than 350.degree. C. to form a polymer having a solution viscosity higher than that of the prepolymer by at least 0.03 dl/g. The reaction mixture is then cooled with stirring.

Granular high-melt-stable poly(arylene thioether-ketone) and production

The present invention discloses an easily-slidable polyarylene thioether film comprising a film containing, as the basic resin, a polyarylene thioether mainly composed of repeating unit of ##STR1## and not containing substantial amount of powder lubricant, having at least one side surface of the arithmetic average surface roughness within the range of 2 to 200 nm and a high strength, and a process to produce the same.

Easily-slidable polyarylene thioether film and process for producing the

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