Vinyl Acetate

News Vinyl Acetate

• WACKER Presents Innovation Award for Novel Manufacturing Process for Polymer Dispersions

  WACKER has presented an in-house German-Chinese team with the 2021 Alexander Wacker Innovation Award for developing and launching a novel process for producing vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) polymer dispersions. The team – consisting of Henry Chen, Zhong Chen, Dr. Bernhard Eckl, Wilhelm Kaiser, Nelson more

• WACKER opens new dispersions plant in South Korea

  Wacker Chemie AG officially launched its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Ulsan site in South Korea. The additional 40,000 metric tons from the second reactor line increases the site’s VAE-dispersion capacity to a total of 90,000 tons per year. The p more

• Vinyl acetate monomer market benefits from shale gas boom

  Emerging economies, solar power investments and the shale gas boom are all working together to fuel the Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM) market, states a new report by GBI Research. The new report* looks at VAM, a raw material used in the production of synthetic rubbers and polymer resins, and its main e more

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Everyday Chemicals

It’s been a little while since the last post in the ‘Everyday Chemicals’ series, but it’s back today, and with a revamped look (which will also be applied out to the previous posts in the series over the next week or so). The latest post looks at acetic acid; this compound is well known for its pres more

Publications Vinyl Acetate

• Gamma radiation aging of EVA/EPDM blends: Effect of vinyl acetate (VA) content and radiation dose on the alteration in mechanical, thermal, and morphological behavior

  ABSTRACT A series of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)/ethylene‐propylene diene elastomer (EPDM) blends (50/50 ratio) with four types of EVAs were prepared using brabender type batch mixer followed by compression molding. All compression‐molded samples were exposed to gamma radiation at 500, 1000, an more

• Monitoring of the discoloration on γ‐irradiated PE and EVA films to evaluate antioxidant stability

  ABSTRACT γ‐Irradiated films could provoke unexpected interaction with proteins for instance just after irradiation and not necessarily after 12 months indicating there is no more reactive species. The optical properties of two multilayer films [polyethylene (PE)/ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH)/PE more

• Design of Hydroxy-Functionalized Thermoresponsive Copolymers: Improved Direct Radical Polymerization of Hydroxy-Functional Vinyl Ethers

  The improved synthesis and aqueous solution properties of hydroxy-functional vinyl ether (OH-VE) copolymers with lower critical solution temperatures (LCST) in water are presented. A series of OH-VE copolymers were directly prepared by free radical polymerization. Effects of water and comonomers on more