Polyamide-imides Solvay Torlon

The leading global provider of polyamide-imide powders and compounded resins is Solvay Advanced Polymers, LLC, with the resin under the registered trademark Torlon [23]. The major commercial grades are listed below. 

Torlon Polyamide-imide Molding Guide, Solvay Advanced Polymers, T-50258, 2003. 

Chapter 12, Polyamide-imide (PAI), from Solvay Advanced Polymers is a comprehensive and detailed analysis of PAI chemistry of polymerization, products, properties, and processes. Solvay Advanced Polymers produces and supplies Torlon PAI worldwide. The company is a subsidiary of Solvay America, which is part of Solvay SA, Brussels, Belgium. Early in the chapter, the author states, All polyamide-imides that are... 

The most relevant sources of additional data Torlon, Polyamide-imide, Design guide, Solvay Advanced Polymers, 2003, T-50246... 

Polyamide imides, PAI, were first developed at DuPont in 1955. In the early 1960s they became commercially available from Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco now Solvay Advanced Polymers) under the Torlon trade name [52]. PAIs are prepared from trimellitic anhydride chloride and various aromatic diamines such as ODA and methylene dianiline, MDA [53]. PAIs are amorphous thermoplastics that offer T s around 275 °C. Structures are shown in Fig. 1.30. PAIs offer long-lasting performance in severe service environments and a distinct combination... 

Solvay Advanced Polymers is also the world s only producer of polyamide-imide with its Torlon product range. 

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