Abstract: Chlorinated polyethylene mastic adhesive compositions, and process for the production of such compositions, formed from chlorinated polyethylene and a compatible plasticizer. These mastic compositions are useful for bonding and sealing together membranes, particularly chlorinated polyethylene membranes, at ambient conditions without application of heat. The ability to form seals of high peel strength in roofing applications without the use of heat is of particular importance. In another embodiment however, cross linking agents can be incorporated within the recipe, and seals of even greater peel strength obtained. Heat is required in the sealing operation in this instance to produce cross linking of the polymer. One thus has the choice of forming adhesives of high peel strength for roofing applications without any necessity of using heat; or, alternatively, to form adhesives of even greater peel strength with the use of heat.

Abstract: A light anti-chipping coating consisting of vinyl chloride plastic sol is manufactured by employing a hollow filler as a small portion of the overall filler component. Doing so permits weight reduction without deteriorating the anti-chipping property of the light anti-chipping coating.

Abstract: The present invention relates to infection resistant materials and or products made from a molten blend of at least one polymer and a compound having antioxidant, plasticizer and antiviral activity. Additionally, this compound has a hydrophilic lipophilic balance of between 12 and 20. The preferred polymer, polyvinyl chloride, is blended with the antioxidant, plasticizer, antiviral compound NONOXYNOL-9 (.alpha.-nonylphenyl-w-hydroxypoly(oxy-1, 2-ethanediyl) to form the infection resistant material.

Abstract: A process which produces a vinyl chloride resin composition for powder molding by mixing a vinyl chloride resin, a plasticizer and at least one vinyl chloride resin modifying additive in a mixer is provided, which process includes the following steps (A), (B), and (C): (A) feeding a powdery vinyl chloride resin, a plasticizer and at least one vinyl chloride resin modifying additive to a high-speed agitating mixer provided with agitating elements, a jacket, a gas-inlet port and a gas-outlet port and mixing these materials with stirring while heating them to 120.degree. C. to 130.degree. C.; (B) cooling the resulting materials in a mixer down to 70.degree. C. or lower; and (C) further adding thereto a vinyl chloride emulsion polymer and mixing the resulting materials with stirring at 70.degree. C. or lower.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride based resin composition including (a) 100 parts by weight of at least one member of resin selected from; a vinyl chloride polymer or vinyl chloride based copolymer whose mean degree of polymerization is 500 to 1000; and a vinyl chloride based copolymer, of which an insoluble part in tetrahydrofuran is 1 to 50 parts by weight, a swelling value in tetrahydrofuran is at least 5.0 and a mean degree of polymerization of a soluble part in tetrahydrofuran is 500 to 1500, which is a copolymer of vinyl chloride monomers and monomers having at least 2 ethylenic double bonds in a molecule. The resin composition also includes (b) 1 to 30 parts by weight of a paste resin of a vinyl chloride polymer or vinyl chloride copolymer whose mean grain size is 2 .mu.m or less and mean degree of polymerization is 500 to 2000. The resin composition further includes (c) 30 to 200 parts by weight of a plasticizer and (d) 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an underseal composition for motor vehicles, comprising a finely divided vinyl chloride homopolymer, copolymer, terpolymer or graft polymer, a plasticizer, a stabilizer, and a filler comprising calcium carbonate particles, wherein at least a part of said filler is provided with a surface coating formed by a surface treatment agent which comprises at least one saturated or unsaturated carboxylic acid, fatty acid or substituted fatty acid, said carboxylic acid or fatty acid having from 2 to 32 carbon atoms and containing at least one polar group in addition to at least one --COOH group, or a salt of said carboxylic acid or fatty acid. The underseal composition has improved rheological properties.

Abstract: A dispersion of a colored high-molecular weight particulate material is prepared by a) mixing a pigment with an aqueous emulsion of a resin to form a dispersion of the pigment within the emulsion; b) combining the dispersion with particles of polyvinyl chloride containing a plasticizer to form a mixture; and c) adding a metal salt to the mixture to cause the resin to coagulate onto the particles of the polyvinyl chloride. A film comprising the resin and the pigment is formed on the particles of the polyvinyl chloride.

Abstract: Propylene glycol esters of unsaturated fatty acids having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms are found useful as internal lubricants for polyvinyl chloride. As compared to commonly used materials, the use of propylene glycol ester results in improved optical properties, as for example low yellowing after processing and resistance to hazing upon immersion in liquids. The lubricants are used in the manufacture of PVC by bulk or suspension polymerization. Broadly from 0.1 to 5 wt. % of the ester is incorporated into the resin.

Abstract: Flexible elastomers are provided having a Shore A hardness of less than or equal to about 95. In one embodiment, the elastomers are blends of an overpolymer and/or graft polymer with a plasticizer or blending agent. In another embodiment, the overpolymers are flexible without the need for a plasticizer or blending agent. These overpolymers have an ethylene copolymer substrate overpolymerized with a vinyl chloride type monomer and optionally a comonomer, including an acrylate comonomer. The elastomers are distinguished by the Shore A values and in some instances by haze values of less than or equal to about 50 percent.

Abstract: A plastisol composition containing a vinyl chloride type polymer, a plasticizer, an adhesiveness-improving agent and a thermal dissociation-promoting agent, wherein the adhesiveness-improving agent is an aromatic diisocyanate polymer randomly blocked with at least two different members selected from the group consisting of monoalkylphenols and dialkylphenols.

Abstract: A composition for forming a coating comprising polyvinylidene difluoride and an aqueous emulsion of acrylates, methacrylates, an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or acrylamide and a solvent having a low boiling point. The composition can be used to form a bandage or glove in situ.

Abstract: Thermally stable hot applied plastisol compositions are especially useful in the assembly of metal parts. The compositions have adhesive and sealant qualities which allow them to be used in automotive assembly plants. Compositions of the invention comprise as major ingredients finely divided polyvinyl chloride resin, plasticizer, thermoplastic polymeric resin which is solid at room temperature but softens to a flowable state at application temperature, and an adhesion promotion system. Optionally a filler, wax, heat stabilizer, pigment, wetting agent, or mixtures thereof may be added. The individual components work synergistically to get good application properties, metal adhesion, wash-out resistance, and paintability.

Abstract: Mono- and di-esters of 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol and benzoic acids are useful plasticizers for vinyl chloride polymers, and other polymers, particularly for imparting improved stain resistance to plasticized compositions. Novel processes for preparing the esters are disclosed.

Abstract: A polyvinyl chloride resin composition for powder molding, containing a dry blend of a polyvinyl chloride resin and a plasticizer, wherein the plasticizer is a mixed trimellitate of a mixture of compounds of the formula ##STR1## where R is an alkyl group, each of the compounds contains the same or different alkyl group in the same or different molecules, and the alkyl groups in the mixture have a straight chain ratio of at least 85 mol % and consist of 5 to 55 mol % of alkyl groups having at most seven carbon atoms, 45 to 95 mol % of alkyl groups having eight carbon atoms, and at most 10 mol % of alkyl groups having at least nine carbon atoms.

Abstract: Ion selective parts are described which comprise a polymeric material, an ion selective component and optionally furthermore a plasticizer and which ion sensitive parts are suited for the determination of the concentration or activity of ions in liquid media. The polymeric material of said ion sensitive parts is a copolymer in which 5-25 mol-% of the monomeric units of said copolymer are substituted with one or more hydrophilic substituents which are selected from the group comprising hydroxy groups, carboxylic acid groups, sulphonic acid groups and phosphonic acid groups. The inventive ion selective parts have, compared with corresponding ion selective parts in which the polymeric material is free of the stated hydrophilic groups or has a lower content of said hydrophilic groups, a better stability of the standard potential E.sub.o and a lower asymmetry potential or no asymmetry potential at all.

Abstract: Coating compositions comprise a thixotropic resin dispersion in which the resin particles are a vinyl polymer, a cross-linked unsaturated carboxylic acid polymer which is neutralized with a salt of a low valence metal, and an adhesion promoter.

Abstract: An adhesive composition comprising a polymer, a tackifier, and a plasticizing amount in the range of 5-40% by weight, 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol dibenzoate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new vinyl chloride polymer coating material which can be top-coated with acid-catalyzed coating compositions at low curing temperatures without compromising the adhesion of the coating to the metal substrate and without inhibiting the cure of subsequently applied coating. In accordance with the present invention, a new plastisol coating composition comprises a finely-divided vinyl chloride polymer together with a plasticizer and from about 0.5 to about 5 percent by weight of a composition of an adhesion promoter which is a non-gelled condensation product ofa) a polymerized fatty acid; andb) a mixture of amines being present in a concentration to produce a final amine value that ranges up to about 225, said mixture being comprised of a polyalkylene polyamine and an N-aminoalkylpiperazine.In addition, the present invention provides a new and improved adhesion promoter for use in the aforesaid vinyl chloride polymer coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an underseal composition for motor vehicles, comprising a finely divided vinyl chloride homopolymer, copolymer, terpolymer or graft polymer, a plasticizer, a stabilizer, and a filler comprising calcium carbonate particles, wherein at least a part of said filler is provided with a surface coating formed by a surface treatment agent which comprises an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid or fatty acid having from 4 to 14 carbon atoms, or a salt thereof. The underseal composition has improved rheological properties.

Abstract: Mono- and di-esters of 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol and benzoic acids are useful plasticizers for vinyl chloride polymers, and other polymers, particularly for imparting improved stain resistance to plasticized compositions. Novel processes for preparing the esters are disclosed.

Abstract: A process for preparing a vinyl chloride copolymer which comprises polymerizing a vinyl chloride monomer or a mixture of a major proportion of a vinyl chloride monomer with a minor proportion of a copolymerizable monomer and at least one crosslinking agent selected from polyhydric alcohol diglycidyl ether diacrylates and dimethacrylates. The crosslinking agent is added to the reaction system after polymerization of the vinyl chloride monomer or the mixture proceeds to a certain extent. By this, the resultant copolymer has good processability and good mechanical and electric characteristics.

Abstract: Flexible blend compositions are provided having a Shore A hardness of less than or equal to about 90. The compositions are blends of an overpolymer and/or graft polymer with a plasticizer or blending agent. The overpolymer has an ethylene copolymer substrate overpolymerized with a vinyl chloride type monomer or comonomer and optionally including an acrylate comonomer. The compositions are distinguished by an absence of shrinkage in hot oil. The compositions generally tend to swell in hot oil.

Abstract: A method for inspecting the quality of modifiers for vinyl chloride type resins which includes kneading, with rolls, a soft vinyl chloride resin composition which is free of modifiers and is composed of a stabilizer, a plasticizer and a light shielding pigment to melt the composition and completely remove fish eyes present in the composition; adding a modifier for vinyl chloride type resins to the melted soft vinyl chloride resin composition; again kneading the mixture and then forming the mixture into a sheet to detect and count the number of fish eyes present in the sheet. This method makes it possible to simply and correctly determine the number of fish eyes of modifiers utilizing a widely used apparatus to thereby perform quality inspection of the modifiers. Moreover, when modifiers for vinyl chloride type resins are used in extrusion molding, the method is particularly effective for inspecting the quality of such modifiers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plastisol composition based upon polyvinyl chloride and comprising polyvinyl chloride, plasticizers, and calcium carbonate, as main components, whereby the composition furthermore comprises a polyolefin oligomer having 2 to 4 carbon atoms in the monomer basic part, in an amount of 0.1 to 25% by weight of the total composition.

Abstract: A surface covering product having static dissipative electrical properties comprises a consolidated agglomeration of individual chips of polymeric material and wherein at least a portion of said individual chips contain an antistatic agent. A second portion of individual chips contain no antistatic agent or a reduced amount of antistatic agent.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions for forming opaque, abrasion-removable masks on substrates. The compositions, which include a texture modifying amount of solid or hollow microspheres, have enabled depression or embossing of the surface of the printed substrates to be obscured so that they cannot be seen by the naked eye. The compositions can be based on plastisols, pigmented polymer solution, or pigmented aqueous emulsions. The invention further provides substrates, for example lottery tickets, having abrasion-removable masks formed from compositions of the invention.

Abstract: Thermally stable hot applied plastisol compositions are especially useful in the assembly of metal parts. The compositions have adhesive and sealant qualities which allow them to be used in automotive assembly plants. Compositions of the invention comprise as major ingredients finely divided polyvinyl chloride resin, plasticizer, thermoplastic polymeric resin which is solid at room temperature but softens to a flowable state at application temperature, and an adhesion promotion system. Optionally a filler, wax, heat stabilizer, pigment, wetting agent, or mixtures thereof may be added. The individual components work synergistically to get good application properties, metal adhesion, wash-out resistance, and paintability.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved plastisol composition comprising a finely-divided vinyl chloride polymer, filler, a primary plasticizer, and a polyaminoamide-polyimidazoline adhesion promoter. The improvement for overcoating said plastisol with an acid catalyzed topcoat comprises a plasticizer/promoter phase which comprises said primary plasticizer, said adhesion promoter, and an effective amount of a secondary plasticizer non-ionic solvent effective in solvating the adhesion promoter in the plasticizer/promoter phase. The plasticizer/promoter phase is pre-formed for addition with the remaining ingredient for the plastisol composition.

Abstract: A surface covering product having static dissipative electrical properties is shown, which surface covering product comprises a consolidated agglomeration of individual chips of polymeric material and wherein at least a portion of said individual chips contain an antistatic agent.

Abstract: Diurethanes corresponding to general formula (I) or (II) belowR.sup.1 --NH--CO--O--R.sup.2 --O--CO--NH--R.sup.1 (I)R.sup.3 --O--CO--NH--R.sup.4 --NH--CO--OR.sup.3 (II)in which R.sup.1 is a C.sub.3 -C.sub.22 alkyl or aralkyl radical or a phenyl radical, R.sup.2 is a residue of a difunctional polypropylene glycol having a number average molecular weight of from 1000 to 4000, R.sup.3 is the residue of a monofunctional polypropylene glycol monoalkyl ether having a number average molecular weight of from 500 to 2000, and R.sup.4 is C.sub.4 -C.sub.36 alkylene group, a diaryl methane group or a tolylidene group, as stabilizing agents for sealing compositions, for isocyanate-terminated polyurethane prepolymers, and for polyvinyl chlorides and copolymers of vinyl chloride.

Abstract: A device for the controlled release and delivery of a pharmacologically active agent, comprising a vinyl gel layer and a pharmacologically active agent uniformly dispersed in the layer in a pharmacologically effective amount, the vinyl layer comprising a polyvinyl chloride resin, a primary plasticizer for the polyvinyl chloride resin, and an organic, nonvolatile gel forming additive in an amount sufficient to form a gel.

Abstract: A latex copolymer composition is produced having good flame retardancy. The copolymer is typically made from vinylidene chloride monomers, conjugated diene monomers, vinyl substituted aromatic monomers, and functional monomers such as unsaturated mono or dicarboxylic acids. Through the use of flame retardant agents such as halogenated waxes, metallic salts, and the like, the pliability or softness, as well as the strength of the copolymer composition, can be controlled. Flexibilizing agents can optionally be utilized to abate cracking, especially after heat aging. The composition can optionally be pigmented. The flame retardant latex composition can be utilized as coatings on various substrates such as mats, fibers, and the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition suitable for the preparation of a gasket for use in the production of shaped resin articles by cast polymerization. The composition is comprises (A) 100 weight parts of a vinyl chloride resin, (B) 30 to 70 weight parts of a carboxylic acid ester or phosphoric acid ester plasticizer, (C) 0.5 to 10 weight parts of an epoxy type plasticizer and (D) 0.1 to 5 weight parts of a barium- or zinc-containing stabilizer.

Abstract: Shaped bodies of plastic material have a high elasticity and high adhesive characteristics if they contain, referred to the percentage of the plastic material of said shaped bodies, a higher percentage of a benzophenonetetracarboxylic acid tetraester. In said benzophenone-tetracartoxylate the ester forming alcohol component is an alkanol, alkenol or alkynol having 4-24 carbon atoms. The shaped bodies can be adhered to a substrate by pressing them onto it. The inventive shaped bodies are preferably strands, fibers, filaments or foils, for example foils for the packaging of products. Preferred shaped bodies are ion sensitive membranes for the determination of the concentration of ions and said membranes contain furthermore an ion selective component for the ion to be determined.Solutions of the inventive shaped bodies in a volatile organic solvent can be applied to a substrated and after the solvent is evaporated there remains on the substrate a firmly adherent elastic film.

Abstract: A device for the controlled release and delivery of a pharmacologically active agent, comprising a vinyl gel layer and a pharmacologically active agent uniformly dispersed in the layer in a pharmacologically effective amount, the vinyl layer comprising an emulsion polymerized polyvinyl chloride resin, a primary plasticizer for the polyvinyl chloride resin, and an organic, nonvolatile gel forming additive in an amount sufficient to form a gel.

Abstract: Polymer systems can be rendered flame retardant by adding a source of halogen and particles of antimony pentoxide that have been dried from colloidal dispersions that have been treated with certain metal ions. The properties of the polymer are conserved when the colloidal dispersion is treated with ions of metals that have insoluble antimonates before drying to form a powder.

Abstract: A granular vinyl chloride polymer is produced by mixing an aqueous dispersion of a vinyl chloride polymer with an organic liquid being difficulty soluble in water and incapable of dissolving or swelling the vinyl chloride polymer to prepare an aggregate of particles of the vinyl chloride polymer, dehydrating the aggregate and then drying it. The drying is carried out by using a fluidized drying machine under such conditions that the temperature of the vinyl chloride polymer is not more than 40.degree. C. in the constant rate period of drying and not more than 50.degree. C. in the falling rate period of drying.

Abstract: Liquid copolyesters useful as plasticizers for vinyl resins are provided. The copolyesters are obtained by the esterification of specific aliphatic dicarboxylic acid ester mixtures with 1,4-butanediol and an aliphatic saturated monofunctional alcohol. The copolyesters have acceptably low solidification points; they are resistant to hydrocarbon extraction; and they impart good low-temperature flexibility to PVC compositions plasticized therewith.

Abstract: Halogenated interpolymers of ethylene and carbon monoxide. The halogenated interpolymer is prepared by (a) preparing a mixture of a liquid medium and a backbone polymer having interpolymerized therein ethylene and carbon monoxide, (b) contacting the backbone polymer in the mixture with halogen at conditions effective to react the halogen only with carbon atoms in the alpha position with respect to the carbonyl groups in the backbone polymer, and (c) recovering the halogenated polymer of step (b). The halogenated interpolymer is useful in molding films and articles therefrom and as a plasticizer in polyvinyl chloride resins. In a preferred embodiment, the backbone polymer has a carbon monoxide content of about 8-20 wt. percent and the halogenated interpolymer has a halide content of about 10-24 wt. percent.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride resin composition with a yield stress of 1 to 5 g/mm.sup.2, composed of(A) 100 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride resin containing 0 to about 20% by weight of a comonomer,(B) about 10 to about 80 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the resin (A), of (B-1) a liquid polyester plasticizer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of not less than about 1,500 and 0 to about 10 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the resin (A), of (B-2) a plasticizer for the resin (A), which is other than said plasticizer (B-1), and(C) about 0.2 to about 200% by weight, based on the total weight of said plasticizers (B-1) and (B-2), of a low-molecular-weight acrylic or methacrylic resin having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of about 1,500 to about 50,000 and being solid at 23.degree. C.

Abstract: Heavy organic by-products obtained by hydroformylating olefins and hydrogenating the crude product to obtain higher alcohols, and their steam cracked derivatives, have been found useful as viscosity modifiers and low temperature property improvers in flexible PVC compositions.

Abstract: A composition having utility as a plasticizer for halogen-containing resins is a mixture of (a) at least two diesters of terephthalic acid or (b) at least two triesters of trimellitic acid. The diesters of terephthalic acid are represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a phenyl radical or an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical of the formula C.sub.n H.sub.m, wherein n is an integer of 1 through 8 inclusive and m is equal to 2n+1; R.sub.2 is either hydrogen or an aliphatic hydrocarbon having one, two, three or four carbon atoms; x is an integer of 2 to 4 inclusive; y is an integer of 2 to 4 inclusive.The trialkyl esters of trimellitic acid are represented by the general formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 is a phenyl radical or an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical of the formula C.sub.n H.sub.m wherein n is an integer of 1 through 8 inclusive and m is equal to 2n+1; R.sub.

Abstract: An adhesive composition, particularly useful for laminating carboxylate-containing films, comprises an aqueous dispersion of a film-forming vinylidene chloride copolymer wherein the vinylidene chloride copolymer includes on a comonomer weight basis:(a) from about 45 to about 90 percent vinylidene chloride,(b) from about 5 to about 25 percent of a polar comonomer having one or more hydroxyl groups, and(c) from about 0 to about 30 percent of a plasticizing monomer for vinylidene chloridein combination with:(d) a cross-linking agent for hydroxyl groups selected from the group consisting of dialdehydes having between two and ten carbon atoms and compounds containing methylol groups dissolved in the continuous aqueous phase of the vinylidene chloride copolymer.

Abstract: A composition solution of resinous polymeric material with the composition including polyvinyl chloride or polyvinyl chloride-polyvinyl acetate copolymer, a saturated vegetable oil release agent typically coconut oil, and a plasticizer such as epoxidized vegetable oil. The composition solution is useful for forming a temporary protective coating on glass, metal, and non-porous plastic or painted surfaces unaffected by the solution solvents. Another use for the composition solution is to provide a plastic permanent protective coating for substances such as sheet rock and wood. This not only presents a barrier to insect invasion such as by termites into wood but also presents a smooth surface on wood forms used as cement forms that gives effective release from cement molded thereon. It is a sealer surface for sheet rock ideal for the mounting of wall paper which when removed may be peeled therefrom without tearing of the sheet rock surface paper.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compositions for coating purposes comprising(A) polyvinyl plastisols,(B) surface modified, finely divided, stabilized polyisocyanates with retarded reactivity, in which 0.1 to 25 equivalents-% of the isocyanate groups of the unstabilized polyisocyanate have been deactivated on the surface, preferably by a reaction with polyamines, hydrazine, alkylhydrazines, polyhydrazide compounds and/or selected amidine and/or guanidine compounds; and(C) plasticizers and/or lightly branched, relatively high molecular weight polyhydroxyl compounds having melting points below 60.degree. C. and compatible with PVC plastisol.The invention also relates to the use of these storage stable but heat curable mixtures as primers for PVC coatings on plastics, foils, textile sheet products or filaments and as primer coats for flocking.

Abstract: Halogenated interpolymers of ethylene and carbon monoxide. The halogenated interpolymer is prepared by (a) preparing a mixture of a liquid medium and a backbone polymer having interpolymerized therein ethylene and carbon monoxide, (b) contacting the backbone polymer in the mixture with halogen at conditions effective to react the halogen only with carbon atoms in the alpha position with respect to the carbonyl groups in the backbone polymer, and (c) recovering the halogenated polymer of step (b). The halogenated interpolymer is useful in molding films and articles therefrom and as a plasticizer in polyvinyl chloride resins. In a preferred embodiment, the backbone polymer has a carbon monoxide content of about 8-20 wt. percent and the halogenated interpolymer has a halide content of about 10-24 wt. percent.

Abstract: A method of recovering a vinyl chloride resin, which comprises mixing an aqueous dispersion of a vinyl chloride resin with an organic liquid which is difficultly soluble in water and does not dissolve nor swell the vinyl chloride resin to form a granular aggregate of the vinyl chloride resin, dehydrating the aggregate and drying it, wherein the granular aggregate before dehydration is adjusted to such a particle size that it contains not more than 20% by weight of particles having a particle diameter of not more than 100 microns.

Abstract: Connected branch polyols comprising a core segment having a defined molecular weight, one core branch unit directly connected to each end of the core segment, at least one additional branch unit at each end connected directly or indirectly to each core branch unit, and linear polymer segments connected to the branch units are utilized in preparing a wide spectrum of polymer/polyols characterized by superior dispersion stability and viscosity to solids content relationship, the polymer/polyols in turn being employed to prepare polyurethanes having superior performance in flame retardancy tests.

Abstract: The epoxy resin stabilizing systems in combination with cadmium containing stabilizers employed in PVC compounds are replaceable without affecting other properties of the polymer by utilizing a specific additive mixture. In particular, a complex ester of oleic acid and a diglycerol ester of oleic acid are employed in conjunction with a calcium-zinc composition. The resulting system yields excellent processing and long-term stability without significantly affecting other properties such as color stability and flame retardancy.

Abstract: A method for flocculating latex particles in a latex is characterized in that a water soluble cationic polymer containing a quaternary ammonium salt in its molecular chain is added as a flocculant to the latex. Also disclosed is a process for producing a thermoplastic resin which comprises flocculating latex particles in a latex material by adding a water soluble cationic polymer containing a quaternary ammonium salt in its molecular chain to the latex, removing freed water from the flocculated latex to obtain a wet cake and then drying the wet cake directly or after the granulation.