Abstract: A method for molding a thermosetting resin pipe having a balanced compressive strength between the axial direction and the direction normal to the pipe axis is disclosed. The method includes steps of molding a thermosetting resin in a smooth zone in the front section of a screw to such an extent that the resin after being extruded from the cylinder is capable of retaining its own shape, and orienting the resin and/or a fibrous filler randomly. An apparatus for producing such a thermosetting resin, and a thermosetting resin having a balanced compressive strength are also disclosed.

Abstract: An improved process for producing hydroquinone from p-isopropenyl phenol is disclosed. Hydroquinone is obtained by oxidizing p-isopropenyl phenol with hydrogen peroxide or an organic peroxide as an oxidizing agent at a temperature of 28.degree. to 50.degree. C. in the presence of a strong acid catalyst using a slightly or hardly water-soluble high-boiling polar solvent. In the oxidation reaction, the mole ratio of the oxidizing agent to p-isopropenyl phenol is kept at less than 1. After the reaction, in order to effectively decompose or consume the undecomposed p-isopropenyl phenol hydroperoxide and the unreacted oxidizing agent remaining in the reaction mixture, the reaction mixture is aged. Alternatively, or subsequently to the aging reaction, SO.sub.2 is added to the reaction mixture to completely decompose the undecomposed or unreacted peroxide. Thus, hydroquinone of high purity is obtained.

Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition comprising the reaction product obtained by reacting an isopropenylphenol and/or its oligomers with a straight-chain unsaturated fatty acid, an unsaturated fat or oil, a polymer of diene hydrocarbon or its derivative having carboxyl or hydroxyl substituents at the ends of the polymer molecule, or a maleinized polymer of diene hydrocarbon and then reacting the resulting intermediate product with a polyhydric alcohol and/or a polybasic acid. When used as a coating and particularly as an undercoating for metals, this resin composition exhibits excellent resistance to corrosion and to water. It may either be directly used as an oil-soluble resin composition or be neutralized with a base prior to use as a water-soluble one.

Abstract: A drying oil such as isomerized linseed oil, dehydrated castor oil or the like oil which has an iodine value of more than 140 and a content of conjugated double bonds of less than 50% is reacted with isopropenylphenol and/or oligomers thereof in an amount, by weight, of 0.1-2 times as great as that of the drying oil in the presence of a small amount of an acid at a temperature of 65-150.degree. C. for 0.5-3 hours. By the reaction, isopropenylphenol and/or its oligomers are introduced to the drying oil while leaving the double bonds of the oil as they are without disappearance. The thus introduced oil is further reacted with a phenol or phenols under strongly acidic conditions to introduce the phenols thereto. The drying oil which has been introduced with the isopropenylphenol and/or its oligomers and also with the phenols is mixed with a phenol or phenols and then reacted with formaldehyde to give a modified phenolic resin.