Polymer production technology

Sulzer offers a wide variety of technologies for the continuous manufacturing 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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Polymer production
Sulzer has been providing key components and skid-mounted systems for the production of various kinds of polymers for over two decades.
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Heat exchanger SMR™
The Sulzer Mixer Reactor SMR™ is a tube bundle heat exchanger that allows high-effective cooling or heating of viscous media. The SMR heat exchanger is your first choice if you wish to combine effective mixing with controlled heat transfer.
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Multitube heat exchanger SMXL™
In addition to the monotube SMXL™, we also offer a multitube mixer-heat exchanger, which offers improved heating or cooling of viscous media at high throughputs. It is the perfect alternative when the flow is too high to be handled in a monotube.
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Polymer reaction technology
Sulzer's unique polymerization technology based on static mixer reactors (SMR plus) opens up new opportunities for process intensification in terms of high conversion, high throughput, consistently high polymer quality, and accurate control of heat transfer, for both oil-based and biopolymers.
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Devolatilization technology
Devolatilization is a key topic in polymer production. Polymer products may contain significant amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that have to be removed prior to selling or processing. With Sulzer's proprietary "devo" technology you can reach state-of-the-art VOC levels for your product.
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Upgrading technology
With its proven static mixing technology, Sulzer offers cost-effective solutions for the in-line upgrading of polymer melts by admixing additives such as dyes, nucleating agents, lubricants, pigments, and stabilizers.
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