What Are PVC Additives
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PVC additives
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a versatile and resource efficient thermoplastics with the widest range of application of any of the plastics family making it useful in virtually all areas of human activity. Without additives PVC would not be a particularly useful substance, but its compatibility with a wide range of additives to soften it, colour it, make it more processible or longer lasting, results in a broad range of potential applications from car underbody seals and flexible roof membranes to pipes and window profiles. PVC products can be rigid or flexible, opaque or transparent, coloured and insulating or conducting. There is not just one PVC but a whole family of products tailor-made to suit the needs of each application. Unlike most other thermoplastics, the majority of PVC applications have a lifetime of between 10 and 100 years. This requires proven durability and stabilizers play an important part in achieving such performance. All polymers require stabilizer of one sort or another;PVC is no different in this respect.
Formulating PVC Products
Before PVC can be made into products, it has to be combined with a range of special additives. The essential additives for all PVC materials are stabilizers and lubricants; In the case of flexible PVC products, plasticizers are also incorporated. Other additives which may be used include fillers, processing aids, impact modifiers and pigments. Additives will influence or determine the mechanical properties, light and thermal stability, colour, clarity and electrical properties of the finished products. Once the additives have been selected, they are mixed with PVC resin in a process called compounding. One method uses an intensive high speed mixer that intimately blends all the ingredients. The result is a powder, know as a ‘dry blend’, which is then fed into the processing equipment.
The second method is to blend the ingredients in either a low or high speed mixer and then transfer the powder to a melt compounder. This can either be a compounding extruder, or other special equipment for making PVC compounds. These produce a melt which is cut into granules ready for processing. In a specialised process, liquid compounds known as plastisols, are produced as dispersions of very fine PVC polymer particles in liquid organic media. PVC compounds are made into products using a variety of processing methods which include extrusion, injection moulding, blow moulding, calendering, etc.
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