Polymers market analysis

Research, G.V., 2014. Medical Polymers Market Analysis by Product (Resins Fibers, Elastomers, Biodegradable Plastics), by Application (Devices and Equipments, Packaging) and Segment Forecasts to 2020. http //www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/medical-polymers-market. 

The section also provides an analysis of biodegradable polymer market size and growth over the last five years for the three major world regions (Western Europe, North America and Asia Pacific), plus forecasts to 2010. 

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It was exciting to follow the development of this polymer from the very first beginning on the laboratory bench up to a product ready to enter the engineering polymers market. This commercial significance also makes it a nice example to illustrate how different TA techniques (DSC, DMA, TMA and thermo electrometric analysis) focussed on one product contribute to the characterisation of such a new polymeric system. All data given are measured on non-stabilised, development phase PK co- and terpolymer samples made more than five years ago. Hence, these data can be different compared with those of the present, further developed, commercial grades. 

Currently, markets for bioproducts are wide-ranging, including polymers, lubricants, solvents, adhesives, herbicides, and pharmaceuticals and their production volume is estimated at several inQUon tons per year. Total production in these markets is in the hundreds of millions of tons therefore, the growth opportunities for biobased products are enormous - so the market analysis in Chapter 8. While bioproducts have already penetrated most of these markets to some extent, new products and technologies are emerging with the potential to further enhance performance, cost-competitiveness, and market share, so the optimistic outlook. 

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Recently a decreased level of CE activity has been noticed with a shift of attention towards other separation techniques such as electrochromatography. CE is apparently not more frequently used partly because of early instrumental problems associated with lower sensitivity, sample injection, and lack of precision and reliability compared with HPLC. CE has slumped in many application areas with relatively few accepted routine methods and few manufacturers in the market place. While the slow acceptance of electrokinetic separations in polymer analysis has been attributed to conservatism [905], it is more likely that as yet no unique information has been generated in this area or eventually only the same information has been gathered in a more efficient manner than by conventional means. The applications of CE have recently been reviewed [949,950] metal ion determination by CE was specifically addressed by Pacakova et al. [951]. 

There are many polymer chain modification reactions of different types that have been carried out on polymer melts processed in single and twin rotor extruders. This activity, (4-6) in the analysis of polymerization reactors, driven by market forces seeking to create value-added polymers from commodity resins, started in the mid-1960s in industrial research laboratories (7). Indeed much of the early work is to be found in the patent literature.1 Although in recent times more publications, both industrial and academic can be found in the open literature, there is still a good deal of industrial secrecy, because the products of reactive polymer processing are of significant commercial value to industry. Below we will deal briefly with two important examples of such reactions. 

This information, which is of the greatest value and has contributed to the marketing of very well characterised polymers, would have been impossible to obtain 10 yrs ago, but it may take a 10 hr run to obtain the 13C NMR spectrum and this reduces the analyst s output as measured in numbers of samples. The experience of the plastics industry is paralleled in many other laboratories — analyses are becoming much more complex and the analyst is becoming more involved with the scientists on the project who request the analysis. The days of what have been called hole-in-the-wall analysis where a sample was passed through a hole in the lab wall for an isolated and impartial assay are drawing to a close. 

In terms of the product life cycle analysis, a new product or polymer would generally require about thirty years from the research and development stage before becoming a commodity product when millions of tonnes are produced annually for mainstream application. In 2005, the biodegradable plastics industry has about fifteen to twenty years of development time behind it and has now reached the market introduction stage. 

In thermal field flow fractionation (TFFF), a temperature gradient is applied. The primary potential advantage of this technique is that it can be used to size particles in the range 0.01 pm to 0.001 pm, an order of magnitude smaller than SFFF. Fffractionation market a TFFF polymer fractionator channel module with 286/16 MHz IBM compatible PC, super VGA color monitor workstation to include data acquisition software, hardware and data analysis software. A linear UV detector and single channel high performance pump are optional. 

After the surface layer of the leather sample is peeled off, the sample can be observed under a microscope. The collagen fibres of leather differ in appearance from non-woven fabrics and from the uniform polymers of coating and lamination in the synthetic substitutes. However, some artificial leathers in the market do better than the real leather. It has been reported that some leather substitutes with super-microfibres of nylon, polyester and polypropylene can have similar views of cross-section under the microscope (Cheng, 1998). A combination of the bum test, the chemical test, the infrared spectroscopic analysis and/or the microscopic... 

While most columns are general-purpose, a number of columns are marketed for specific applications. Examples are columns for environmental analysis (carbamates, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons) or food testing (amino acids, organic acids, sugars). These columns are often shipped with chromatograms demonstrating the performance of the specific application. More examples of specific applications and GPC columns for polymer characterization are described in Chapter 7. 

Transparency Market Research (2014) Biomaterials Market for Implantable Devices (Material Type - Metals, Polymers, Ceramics and Natural, Applications - Cardiology, Orthopedics, Dental, Ophthalmology and Others) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019. 

The EDA approved PEN for food contact appiications in Aprii, 1996. PEN and PET can be blended together to make useful materials, and also PEN/PET copolymers can be produced. When PEN/PET blends are used, one is really making copolymers in the extruder. Analysis of the material that is extruded shows that transesterification reactions occur in the extruder, forming molecular bonds between PET and PEN molecules. Therefore, processing conditions are important to the quality of product one makes when using blends. Blends, as well as copolymers manufactured by polymer suppliers, can open up markets for this polyester that are not accessible to PEN alone because of its high price. While these materials have not yet been approved for food contact applications in the U.S., there appear to be no technical barriers to their approval. 

BP s involvement in the manufacture of composites began in 1979 with the acquisition of Rolls Royce s composites activities our research programmes were targeted on areas fundamental to support of the aerospace composites activity, such as polymer chemistry, finite element analysis, materials science and testing. The ability to direct this work towards real components identified by the business was crucial to the success of the blocker door programme this was due, in part, to the use of a joint technical/commercial marketing team. 

We synthesised different model polyesters and also oligomeric esters with specific structures to study the correlation between biodegiadability and the polymer-parameters responsible for the biological susceptibility. Polyesters are a suitable substance class for such investigations, because they can easily be synthesised in the lab, are potentially biodegradable due to their hydrolyzable ester bonds and they are of practical relevance, because most of the biodegradable plastics currently on the market are based on polyesters. A substantial part of our investigations is the detailed analysis of the structures of complex polyesters (e.g. copolyesters). 

Shen, L., Haufe, J. and Patel, M. (2009) Product Overview and Market Projection cf Emerging Bio-Based Plastics, downloadable from http //www.epnoe.eu/research/Life-Cycle-Analysis (accessed 8 luly 2013). Lemstra, P. (2008) Introduction - Synthetic versus natural polymers. European polymer Federation workshop on Bioplastics Crossing the border between synthetic and natural polymers - May 30-31, Paris. Kim, S. (2004) Global potential bioethanol production from wasted crops and crop residues. Biomass and Bioenergy, April, 361-375. 

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