Additives for Polymers April 1992

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Borax t-e-names its range of fire retardants

New quantitative polymer analysis booklet

Mixed metal stabilizers joint agreement

Additives guide

PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A POLYMERIC PLASTICIZER FOR PET Amoco Corp. Priority Date: 25 April 1990

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PRODUCT INF’ORMATION

Borax Consolidated has introduced a range of zinc borate flame retardants for the plastics industry and is simplifying its offer of zinc borate flame retardants under one trade name worldwide.

The new name is FIREBREAK and products are designated by decomposition temperature in “C. For example, Firebreak 290 is their new name of the company’s existing 2335 material.

The Suprex Corporation, distributed in the UK by Roth Scientific Ltd., has published a 49 page applications booklet entitled “The Extraction and Analysis of Polymer Additives Using Supercritical Fluids”.

This comprehensive publication discusses the advantages of using supercritical fluids for the quantitative analysis of polymer additives compared to more established analytical techniques including soxhlet extraction/HPLC analysis. As well as examining the types of samples and matrices that are suitable for analysis by supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and chromatography (SFC), it offers an extensive library of existing quantitative applications.

For further details, contact: Roth Scientzjk Co. Ltd., Alpha House, Alexandra Road, Farnborough, Hams, GUI4 6BU, (UK). Tel: +44-2.52-513131. Fax: +44-252-543609.

Witco Corporation’s Argus Division and Ciba-Geigy Marienberg GmbH are to jointly develop mixed-metal stabilizers for the PVC market.

Information on polymer additives and speciality chemical products and services is provided in a booklet, available from the Argus Div., Witco Corp., 520 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022, (USA). References cover heat stabilizers, antioxidants, epoxy and speciality plasticizers, thiochemicals, organic peroxides, oil additives, anhydrous aluminium chloride and halogenated additives.

14 o1992 Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd.