Ryton - PPS - Solvay Specialty Polymers

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Development History of Plastics: Growth through Changing Times
...ips Petroleum started production of polyphenylene sulphide (PPS), a very heat-resistant plastic, which had been marketed in trial quantities since 1968 (Ryton). In 1972, the Celanese Corporation commenced production of PBT. In the 1960s and 1970s, an industrial revolution took place. Computers performed tasks that had previously been done by humans. These machines were used in areas such as accounting, order processing, flight booking and design calculation in mechanical engineering. In the USA,...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Expanded Boundaries
...tion mouldable grades, Chevron Phillips Chemicals International has also worked on polyphenylene sulphides for extrusion and made significant progress. In close collaboration with Georg Fischer Deka GmbH, Dautphetal-Mornshausen, it developed the new Ryton R-6-010NA PPS product. This is a high-strength, unreinforced PPS with ultrahigh molecular weight, which can be extruded with a specially adapted extruder die to form high-quality special pipes, rods or bars. It could also be processed to form p...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, High Growth Rates: Polyphenylene Sulphide (PPS)
...d operates according to a process developed Kureha Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. It supplies a linear PPS with the trade name Fortron. Chevron Phillips has been operating a production facility for crosslinked PPS with the trade name Ryton since 1972 in Borger, Texas/USA. This plant has a capacity of around 10000t/a. Chevron Phillips markets primarily the crosslinked PPS of the first generation. No figures have been published about capacities of purely linear PPS. Japan has a large number of PPS...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Safe Braking
...n is the pressure accumulator; this provides relief for the system during pressure reduction and works with the aid of a spring-activated piston. In order to save on both costs and weight, Bosch has been using accumulator pistons made of PPS (grade: Ryton, manufactured by Chevron Phillips; title photo: Bosch) since 1996 (as of ABS/TCS/ESP5). The use of PPS has also made it possible to reduce the volume of the accumulator pistons, even though the requirements on material used in the automotive en...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS)
The semi-crystalline high performance polymer polyphenylene sulfide was first manufactured in 1972 in the United States and marketed under the brand name Ryton by the Phillips Petroleum Company (now Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC, The Woodlands, TX/USA). Today there are a large number of manufacturers serving the global market. The largest of these are Fortron Industries LLC, Wilmington, NC/USA (a joint venture between Ticona Technical Polymers, Kelsterbach, Germany, and Kureha Chemical I...