PVC Additives - Introduction
INEOS Technologies’ PVC additives are a comprehensive range of products for use in the industrial production of suspension and emulsion PVC. The PVC Additive product range includes:
- EVICAS Build-up Suppressants (Coating agents, anti-fouling agents) – Our world famous EVICAS range of products used to prevent polymer build-up in reactors and condensers of all the different PVC homopolymer, copolymers and paste/ emulsion manufacturing processes.
- INOVOL Suspending agents (Dispersing agents, granulating agents) - used in the suspension polymerisation of PVC, to determine particle size, size distribution and other morphological parameters such as porosity.
- INOVOL Antifoam (De-foamer) - used to reduce foaming that may occur during the de-gassing of slurry inside the reactor, during high-pressure discharge of slurry from a reactor or during the high temperature stripping of PVC slurry.
- INOVOL Anti-swelling agent (Reflux condenser antifoam) - used to reduce foaming or swelling that may occur during the PVC reaction in reactors using reflux condensers.
- INOVOL Inhibitor (Recovered monomer stabiliser) - used to inhibit polymerisation in the VC recovery system, preventing build-up in the system and inhibiting the formation of unwanted vinyl chloride polyperoxides.
INEOS Technologies harnesses the knowledge and experience gained from INEOS ChlorVinyls (with its heritage from EVC, ICI and Hydro Polymer), the largest PVC producer in Europe with approximately 70 years of industrial production experience.
Our products have been extensively evaluated and implemented on the INEOS ChlorVinyls plants, which cover a broad range of different technologies routinely producing over 1 million tonnes of PVC each year. Our customers can be assured that our products are of consistent quality and well proven. Production is supported by our R&D & TS research team which has been at the forefront of many of the technical innovations developed over the last 60 years.
The focus for design of our PVC additives has been, and continues to be, on meeting the demanding requirements of high output, low cost and high efficiency with low environmental impact, in the global PVC market.
