Thermoplastic polyester alloys

Today about 75% of the market is held by General Electric and Bayer with their products Lexan and Makrolon respectively. Other manufacturers are ANIC (Italy), Taijin Chemical Co., Mitsubishi Edogawa and Idemitsu Kasei in Japan and, since 1985, Dow (USA) and Policarbonatos do Brasil (Brazil). Whilst this market is dominated by bis-phenol A polycarbonates, recent important developments include alloys with other thermoplastics, polyester carbonates and silicone-polycarbonate block copolymers. 

Aromatic carboxylic dianhydride chain extenders (e.g. PMDA) are a low-cost way of converting recycled PET flakes into high-IV crystalline pellets that can be used in high-value applications (e.g. bottles, strapping, foam, engineering alloys/compounds, etc.) (see Figure 14.2). PMDA is an effective chain extension additive for thermoplastic polyesters such as PET and PBT. It is suitable for the following applications ... 

NYLON (INCLUDING AROMATICS) THERMOPLASTIC POLYESTERS (INCLUDING AROMATICS) POLYCARBON ATES / ALLOYS POLYSULFONES POLYSTYRENE / COPOLYMERS (EXCEPT ABSI EPOXY... 

Traditionally, the cadmium-based pigments have been widely used in engineering resins such as the polyamides 6 and 6/6, PC, thermoplastic polyesters and their blends and alloys. 

The anthraquinone dyes are based on the structure shown in Figure 4. Key properties are summarized in Table 3. Most commercial anthraquinone dyes have sufficient heat stability to be used in polycarbonate and thermoplastic polyesters. However, as indicated in Table 3, only a handful of these dyes are suitable for polyamide Figure 4. The anthraquinone resins and their blends and alloys. Even in these cases caution must ring system. applied. Polyamide materials colored with red anthraquinone... 

Maloy, Thermoplastic polyester, injection molding alloys, M.A. Industries Inc., Polymer Div. 

Vandar, Modified thermoplastic polyester alloys, Ticona... 

Keywords blends, alloys, miscibility, compatibilization, crystallization, nucleation, polyamide (PA-6, PA-66), polycarbonate (PC), thermoplastic polyesters (PET, PBT), polyoxymethylene (POM), pol3 henylene ether (PPE), ethylenevinylacetate (EVA), grafting with maleic anhydride (MA), grafting with glyddyl methacrylate (GMA), liquid crystal pol)oners (LCP), copolymer compatibilizer. 

The blends described in the EDCPB provide a cross section of commercial alloys available in Asia, Europe, and North America. The focus is on blends with the five principal engineering resins polyamides, thermoplastic polyesters, polycarbonates, polyoxymethylenes (acetals), and polyphenylene ethers. There are but few examples of the commodity (and these mainly with polypropylene) as well as with high performance specialty resin blends. This may leave a wrong impression of the global blend industry. 

The main filled engineering plastics are polyamides, thermoplastic polyesters, poly(phenylene oxide)/polystyrene alloy, poly(phenylene sulfide), polyphthalamide, and polysulfones. 

Noncrystalline aromatic polycarbonates (qv) and polyesters (polyarylates) and alloys of polycarbonate with other thermoplastics are considered elsewhere, as are aHphatic polyesters derived from natural or biological sources such as poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), poly(glycoHde), or poly(lactide) these, too, are separately covered (see Polymers, environmentally degradable Sutures). Thermoplastic elastomers derived from poly(ester—ether) block copolymers such as PBT/PTMEG-T [82662-36-0] and known by commercial names such as Hytrel and Riteflex are included here in the section on poly(butylene terephthalate). Specific polymers are dealt with largely in order of volume, which puts PET first by virtue of its enormous market volume in bottie resin. 

Random block copolymers of polyesters (hard segments) and amorphous glycol soft segments, alloys of ethylene interpolymers, and chlorinated polyolefins are among the evolving thermoplastic elastomers. 

With the fast developments in the plastic industry, some of the lesser known plastics will either find future usage or already be used for devices, general medical instruments and apparatus or as implant aids. Certain plastics now involve alloys, i.e. mixtures of thermoplastics, and thermoplastic and thermoset resins. Improvements in what were the economic five plastics, i.e. polyethylenes, polypropylenes, polyvinylchlorides, polystyrenes and polyesters, are constantly occurring. Use of metallocene catalysts is likely to produce plastics of a controlled chain length. 

Polyblends in which both phases are rigid are frequently called poly alloys. Poly (phenyl oxide) is blended with impact polystyrene to improve melt flow. Complete compatibility between the two phases is rare and was observed between poly (methyl methacrylate) and poly(vinylidene fluoride) by D. R. Paul and J. O. Altamirano. Thermoplastics are added to polyesters to reduce mold shrinkage. 

While any plastic material, irrespective of its chemical composition and character, may be made into pipe or tubing, by far the greatest amount of pipe is made from thermoplastics (TPs) that are adaptable to extrusion processes (Chapter 5). Specialty pipe is made in small amounts from TS materials such as phenolic and polyester, but very large of commercial pipe is made from polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, acrylonitrile butadiene copolymers, and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene types of alloys. Specialty tubing in relatively small amounts is made of acrylates and acrylate copolymers, as well as other transparent materials (Chapter 3). 

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Polymer blends containing a crystallizable component have attracted many scientists, both from basic research and applied research laboratories. This is probably due to the fact that the majority of commercially used thermoplastic blends and alloys contain at least one crystallizable material [5]. In order to obtain the desired product properties, it is often very important to control the crystallization process. For instance, in certain applications it is useful to have amorphous polyester (e.g., PET, as a package material), whereas for other applications a higher degree of crystallinity is necessary (e.g., as a fiber material). In amorphous/crystalline polymer blends the crystallization behavior is often strongly influenced by the amorphous component. Usually, the crystallization rate of the crystalline polymer is reduced by the amorphous polymer. In most systems this is caused by an increase... 

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