Plastic Additives R & D Response To Environment Protection And Energy Requirements

R & D lag is pressing China's plastics additivesmore attention. As the plastics industry, the
enterprise technology strength is not strong, thedevelopment of quality and performance additives
slow progress in development of new products tocontinues to increase.
independent R & D-based manufacturers. InIn the antioxidant, the development of oxygen under
product development, national prevalence of ahigh ambient temperature heat aging antioxidants will
prominent issue is the imitation. Companies arereport directly to the current market have a greater
unwilling to invest large amount of manpower andimpact. In the processing and application of the
financial resources, research and developmentprocess, in order to prevent dust on the human body
seriously lagged behind general-purpose and low-endinjury, dust-free granulosa technology is also used in
products based mainly value-added low andmany companies, and other antioxidant additives
inconsistent quality, the market needs a lot ofpowdery solid varieties. In the plasticizer, at present
high-grade additives rely on imports. Plasticizeroccupy the dominant position of the phthalate esters
industry as an example to the world, have been(DEHP) products on the function of body parts, the
successfully developed up to more than 500 kinds ofdamage has been widespread controversy, to find
plasticizers have been commercialized in more thanalternatives to DEHP urgent. Other additives, such as
100 varieties, but our country is currently able toflame retardants, antistatic agents, antibacterial
produce less than 30 species, a far cry. Meanwhile,agents, deoxidation agent, nucleating agents,
the downstream product manufacturers are unwillingdegradation agents, plastic additives such as
to use because of high cost of new varieties, suchfunctional recovery of additives used in plastics
as wire and cable products used in pairs ofapplication of the amount of growing in the active R
2-ethylhexyl phthalate, and packaging film products of& D driven by the gradual growth of related
trimellitic octyl, etc., although good performance, butindustries.
has not been widely used, thus affecting theCompared with the previous, environmental
development of new products.protection, energy conservation has become a
It can be said, who first organization to have a newprerequisite for the development of plastics additives.
additive, whoever occupied the high-end market ofMany new functional additives must reflect the basic
plastic products. Plastics additives in some of theprinciples of environment protection and energy in
domestic enterprises and research institutes awareorder to specifically consider the functionality,
of this, have to make technological innovations, andefficiency, diversity, and other areas of scalability
constantly have new varieties available. Among them,requirements. Such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) heat
Yangzi Petrochemical Research Institute and otherstabilizers, new product development focus in its
units of the development of nucleating agent,production process to avoid or reduce the use of
Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Guangdongheavy metals on the toxicity or potential hazards
Wei Carolina, and other units have developed inwith the traditional heat stabilizer to achieve drug-free
cooperation with resource advantages of rare-earthtechnology, the full function of harmless replacement.
series additive, Hangzhou clover development ofAt present the use of our unique rare earth
environment-friendly additive organic calciumresources, and calcium, zinc and rare earth combine
compound liquid stabilizer and so on in the world'sto form calcium effect of zinc products, better
advanced level.thermal stability, is a new type of non-toxic harmless
In the rapidly expanding market demand, fiery redheat stabilizer. In the light stabilizer, the hindered
behind the scenes, cost pressures, environmentalamine light stabilizer (HALS) is to study the largest
responsibility, policy adjustments, technologicaland fastest-growing varieties, its R & D trends
bottlenecks along the path of development of thecan be summed up as follows: non-toxic polymer
industry a difficult decision difficult. Many varieties ofquantization; low-alkaline, low-response-oriented, such
plastic additives for the plastics industry, the boomingas the alkoxylation products; composite, based on
icing on the cake, in the plastic toughening, enhancedthe complementary functional synergy effects, such
by plastic, flame retardant, antistatic, antibacterial,as high-performance composite weathering
antioxidant, etc. play an important role by more andtechniques.