It is thanks to additives that polyvinyl chloride PVC is a versatile and resource-efficient thermoplastic. PVC has the widest range of applications compared to all of the other plastics, making it useful in practically all areas of human activity. Without additives, PVC would not be a useful substance. However, PVC is compatible with a wide range of additives that can soften it, colour it, or make it more processable or longer lasting.
Through the use of durable, weatherable pigments, and product enhancing additives, we provide custom color and additive concentrates, and offer custom PVC compounds for some .
Polyvinyl chloride PVC is a versatile and resource efficient thermoplastic with the widest range of applications of any of the plastics family making it useful in virtually all areas of human activity. Without additives PVC would not be a particularly useful substance, but its compatibility with a wide range of additives — to soften it, colour it, make it more processable or longer lasting, results in a broad range of potential applications from car underbody seals and flexible roof membranes to pipes and window profiles. PVC products can be rigid or flexible, opaque or transparent, coloured and insulating or conducting. There is not just one PVC but a whole family of products tailor-made to suit the needs of each application.
We use various types of compound additives to promote plasticity and flexibility to meet specific needs, such as renewable non-phthalate, improved low temperature tolerance and biocides.
It is well known that children will chew or suck on anything that is given to them. Most PVC for toys uses plasticisers to give the flexibility that makes the material so appropriate for children. The main plasticisers are phthalates, a group of colourless, odourless and, in the presence of oxygen, readily biodegradable liquids. These are used as plasticisers to give raw PVC the desired qualities of flexibility for use in toy applications.
Our chemical products include a range of PVC additives—such as low-temperature plasticizers, heat stabilizers, pigments, and more—that enhance the material’s .
Before PVC can be made into products, it has to be combined with a range of special additives. These additives can influence or determine a number of the products properties, namely; its mechanical properties, weather fastness, its colour and clarity and indeed whether it is to be used in a flexible application. This process is called compounding. PVC's compatibility with many different kinds of additives is one of the materials many strengths and is what makes it such a highly versatile polymer.