US 5,034,431 Reinforced polymers

December 1991

Additives for Polymers

PRODUCT DETAILS

This is a UV concentrate that is said to combine good UV performance, maximum loadings of antioxidants, and an ability to resist pesticide attack in mulch and greenhouse films.

END USE TRADE NAME(S) CHEMICAL TYPE COWANY

UV ABSORBER GRADE 19143-15 Fine-particle-size carbon black concentrate in LLDPE Color-techInc., 8011 Dixie Road, Brampton, Ont. L6T 3V1, (Canada).

PRODUCT DETAILS

Affords UV stability at high processing temperatures for industrial packaging.

END USE TRADE NAME(S)

W ABSORBERS MIXXIM AO-20 MIXXIM AO-30 Hindered phenolics Fairmount Chemical Corp., 117 Blanchard Street, Newark, NJ 07105, (USA).

COMICAL COMPAm

TYPE

PRODUCT DETAILS

AO-20 is a generic of Ciba-Geigy’s Irganox 3114 and is reco~ended for use in ~l~ropylene. AO-30 is a slightly higher-priced equivalent of Topanol CA from ICI and is designed for polyolefiies.

PATENTS us 5,034,431

REINFORCED POLYMERS Shell Oil Co. Priority Date: 6 September 1990 Reinforcement is a glass fibre with a sizing coat of aminosilane.

us 5,034,439

FIRE RETARDANT POLYESTER MOULDING COMPOUND Ciba-Geigy Priority Date: 29 December 1988 Fire retardant is a) a brominated corn~~d compound.

us 5,034,442

and b) an ~t~ony

FIRE RETARDANT Kyowa Chemical Industry Priority Date: 19 August 1988 Surface-treatment of magnesium hydroxide with a dialcohol amine salt of an alcohol phosphate ester,

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