Abstract: A process for the production of polyvinyl chloride graft copolymers from ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymers and vinyl chloride by graft polymerization in the aqueous phase consisting essentially of adding a water-soluble, free-radical-forming polymerization catalyst to an aqueous dispersion of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer optionally containing additional emulsifiers and/or dispersion stabilizers, heating said dispersion to the polymerization temperature, adding vinyl chloride gas above said agitated heated dispersion at such rate that the pressure is below the saturation pressure of vinyl chloride at the polymerization temperature, and recovering said polyvinyl chloride grafted copolymer.

Abstract: Copolymers of vinyl chloride and 2-hydroxypropyl-alkyl maleate and/or fumarate consisting of a copolymer with from 65% to 95% by weight of vinyl chloride monomer units and from 5% to 35% by weight of 2-hydroxypropyl-alkyl maleate and/or fumarate monomer units, where alkyl has from 8 to 18 carbon atoms and is preferably branched, optionally with up to 15% of a dialkyl maleate and/or fumarate monomer units, where each alkyl has from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, said copolymer having a K-value of from 20 to 50 measured in cyclohexanone, as well as the method of producing the same by continuous addition of the monomer mix to an aqueous emulsion.

Abstract: Vinyl chloride terpolymers soluble in aromatic compounds with a K-value of from 25 to 38, measured in cyclohexanone consisting of an emulsion polymerized monomer mixture of from65% to 80% by weight of vinyl chloride,15% to 27% by weight of a diester of maleic acid and/or fumaric acid with multiple-branched alkanols having 9 to 15 carbon atoms, and3% to 15% by weight of a monoester of maleic acid and/or fumaric acid with multiple-branched alkanols having 9 to 15 carbon atoms;As well as the process of their preparation by pre-emulsification of the mono and di esters in the aqueous phase with an anionic emulsifier prior to polymerization with vinyl chloride.