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Industry Profile
What are they?
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Poly means many ; meros means parts
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Polymers are either Natural & Synthetic
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The first synthetic polymer, a phenol-formaldehyde polymer, was introduced
under the name “Bakelite”
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Rayon is the first synthetic Fiber
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Polymers are commonly used in thousands of products as
plastics, elastomers, coatings, and adhesives.
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They make up about 80% of
the organic chemical industry
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Natural rubber is a polymer of isoprene in the form of folded polymeric
chains which are joined in a
network structure and have a high degree of flexibility
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Polymer is composition of monomers. Carbons atoms combine with
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, or sulphur to form monomers.
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Monomers are then chemically bonded into a chain
called Polymers.
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Plastic are polymers with high molecular weight
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Polymer - a chemical substance consisting of
molecules characterized by the sequence of one or more types of monomer
units and comprising a simple weight majority of molecules
containing at least 3 monomer units which are covalently bound to at least
one other monomer unit or other reactant and which consists of less than a
simple weight majority of molecules of the same molecular weight. Such
molecules must be distributed over a
range of molecular weights wherein differences in the molecular weight are
primarily attributable to differences in the number of monomer units.
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Not all polymers can be manufactured due to
environmental concerns
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Some Polymers are exempted and can be produced
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Cationic polymers and those polymers which are
reasonably anticipated to
become cationic in the natural aquatic environment are excluded from the
exemption and may not be manufactured under it. The principal concern is
the
toxicity toward aquatic organisms
Market
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India still will import over 3 MMT of Polymers
in 2016
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Polymer industry - an integral part of mega petrochemical industry
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Crude oil is a key raw material for polymers ; profitability of the
industry has been hit due to rise in International crude oil prices
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Naphtha is the principal
feed stock for polymers in India.
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Rising naphtha prices have driven the polymer prices upwards
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The domestic polymer industry is dominated by Polyolefin’s
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Indian Polyolefin Industry market is dominated by four manufacturers
HPL,IOCL, RIL,GAIL
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Indian manufacturers have real time
opportunities to expand
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