Case study Alternatives to reproduction-toxic plasticisers in plastics

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Technical advantage/function flexible properties for poiymers like PVC 

These companies also develop plastisols on the basis of other plastics, which however frequently also contain plasticisers. Underbody hard shells, on the other hand, are offered by other manufacturers. The market price for PVC plasticiser systems as a whole is characterised by the fact that the polymer (PVC) and the principal plasticiser (DEHP) are produced in veiy high volumes (in the EU 15 m. tons of PVC are produced per aimum, with 600,000 tons of DEHP being produced in 1997) and can be combined flexibly in order to obtain certain technical product qualities. The longer-chain phthalates DINP and DIDP are also high-volume chemicals ( 100,000 t/a). Soft PVC products ate thus generally incomparably cheap. 

DINP = diisononyl phthalate, DIDP = diisodecyl phthalate 

List of declarable materials in automobile manufacturing - Substances in components 

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