Polymer production technology

Sulzer offers a wide variety of technologies for the continuous production of polymers, with a focus on optimum product quality, while featuring high production flexibility, and low operating costs.

Our innovative technologies largely benefit from our vast in-house experience in static mixing and heat exchange in high-viscous media, as well as our extensive system integration know-how. Our technology packages are used in many industrial-scale polymer production processes, and a wide range of polymer applications.
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Expandable polystyrene (EPS)
Expandable polystyrene (EPS) consists of polystyrene micro-pellets or beads containing a blowing agent and other additives for foaming. We have developed a continuous production process in which the blowing agent is directly injected into the melt, combined with subsequent underwater pelletization.
Sulzer's key technology is used for the reaction, devolatilization, and admixing of additives in polystyrene melt
Polystyrene (PS)
Our key technologies for the reaction, devolatilization, and upgrading/admixing of additives are all based on our outstanding static mixing and heat exchange technologies. They boost the conversion of your existing plant, lower the residual monomer content, and improve the quality of your polystyrene.
PLA plant at Synbra with 5 000 t/a capacity, designed and delivered by Sulzer
Polylactic acid (PLA)
PLA is the most promising biopolymer based on renewable feedstock, with global capacity expected to grow from 0.1 Mta today to 2 Mta over the next few years. In cooperation with Purac, Sulzer has developed a new process to convert lactides to PLA. This is available as a complete, skid-mounted unit.
Transport of large parts on trucks in winter time
Technologies for other polymer
In addition to our key process technologies for the continuous production of EPS, PLA and polystyrene, we offer extensive know-how in applying our core technologies to various types of mass and solution polymerization processes such as PC, PMMA, LLDPE, silicones, rubber, and many more.
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