Synthomer’s Alcotex polyvinyl alcohols have been specially developed for use as suspending agents for vinyl chloride suspension polymerisation in the manufacture of PVC. Alcotex products allow you to produce PVC with a wide range of porosities and bulk densities, and provide you with excellent grain size control at cost-effective concentrations. As a result of their long track record of success, Alcotex products have become a critical component of PVC suspension recipes, with the performance to help you achieve your required polymerisation characteristics. Our unique process for polymerisation and hydrolysis imparts key characteristics to the polyvinyl alcohol, giving a robust, universal product for many PVC technologies and PVC resin types.
Alcotex primary and secondary suspending agents provide you with many benefits for your PVC production process, achieving desired resin characteristics at cost effective concentrations. They help you achieve higher plant output and lower operating costs, providing low polymer build-up in the reactor, reduced down-time for cleaning, and homogeneous porosity of the PVC grains, enabling easier free monomer removal. The homogeneous porosity also improves plasticiser absorption properties and can be adjusted to give fast dry-up times and a low “fish-eye” count, reducing the reject level in critical applications.
- High efficiency.
- High compatibility.
- High plant output.
- Low fish-eye count.
- Low reactor fouling.
- Low residual monomer
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Group |
Tradename |
Chemistry |
Description |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 234 |
OTH |
Synthomer Ltd has developed Alcotex 234 for use in conjunction with Alcotex 225 ... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 432P |
PVOH |
Alcotex 432P is a 43% hydrolysed polyvinyl alcohol supplied as a low viscosit... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 45 |
PVOH |
Alcotex 45 is a 45% hydrolysed polyvinyl alcohol supplied as a low viscosity ... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 55-002H |
PVOH |
Alcotex 55-002H is a colloidal dispersion of polyvinyl alcohol. It has been s... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 552P |
PVOH |
Alcotex 552P is an aqueous solution of a 55% hydrolysed polyvinyl alcohol. It... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 72.5 |
PVOH |
Alcotex 72.5 is a polyvinyl alcohol which has been specially developed for use a... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 7206 |
PVOH |
Alcotex 7206 is a 72.5% hydrolysed, low/ medium molecular weight polyvinyl al... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 80 |
PVOH |
Alcotex 80 is an 80% hydrolysed high molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol which ha... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX 8847 |
PVOH |
Alcotex 8847 is an 88% hydrolysed polyvinyl alcohol for use in speciality app... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX B72 |
PVOH |
Alcotex B72 is polyvinyl alcohol which has been specially developed for use a... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX B78 |
PVOH |
Alcotex B78 is polyvinyl alcohol which has been specially developed for use a... |
ALCOTEX |
ALCOTEX WD100 |
PVOH |
Alcotex WD100 is an aqueous solution of a 43% hydrolysed polyvinyl alcohol. I... |
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