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A Comprehensive Overview of Polyphenylene Oxide (PPO) Polymer Manufacturers!

New Materials Study Group 2025-03-20 14:31:36

PPO has already been widely applied in fields such as photovoltaics, automobiles, electronics, home appliances, and water treatment. In addition, PPO is also an important material in national strategic emerging industries, such as 5G communications, new energy vehicles, and integrated circuit chips. In recent years, the development speed of PPO has accelerated.

Below is an introduction to the major PPO material polymer production enterprises at home and abroad (in no particular order).

SABIC

In 2008, SABIC acquired GE's engineering plastics department for $11.6 billion, which included GE's PPE project and the world's most comprehensive range of PPO alloy types.

SABIC's NORYL™ SA90 and SA9000 resins are unique low molecular weight polyphenylene ether (PPE) telechelic copolymers that can be used as additives in high-performance copper clad laminates, improving the product's dielectric properties, dimensional stability, and mechanical properties.

NORYL™ SA90

NORYL™ SA90 is a dihydroxy functional oligomeric polyphenylene ether suitable for epoxy-containing low to mid loss PCBs.

NORYL™SA9000

NORYL™ SA9000 is a dipropenyl-terminated polyphenylene ether oligomer product suitable for non-epoxy low-loss PCBs. Last year, SABIC announced a doubling of the NORYL™ SA9000 specialty resin production capacity at its Indian plant to better support the rapidly growing demand for high-performance printed circuit boards (PCBs) used in 5G base stations and high-speed servers.

Japanese Mitsubishi Gas Chemical

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. is one of the world's renowned chemical enterprises, with a leading global advantage in the production process of ultra-pure electronic-grade and food-grade hydrogen peroxide. It mainly engages in the production and trading of inorganic and organic chemical products, petrochemical products, synthetic resins, synthetic rubbers, and other polymer products. Its products span multiple fields including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food, health, and IT.

Mitsubishi Gas's ethylbenzene polyphenylene ether resin, trade name OPE-2St, has the characteristics of low dielectric constant and low dielectric loss, suitable for ultra-low loss copper clad laminates.

Asahi Kasei

Asahi Kasei produces PPE using 2,6-xylenol as the raw material, which is then mixed with various resins such as polystyrene (PS), polyamide (PA), polypropylene (PP), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), and polyphthalamide (PPA) to create polymer alloys, offering a rich variety of material grades. It is one of the major global suppliers of low molecular weight PPO.

XYRON™ is Asahi Kasei's modified PPE (modified polyphenylene ether or mPPE) resin product series. It features excellent heat resistance, flame retardancy, electrical properties, dimensional stability, low water absorption, and light specific gravity.

Nantong Xingchen Synthetic Materials Co., Ltd.

In 2000, Bluestar Chemical New Materials Co., Ltd. and Nantong Synthetic Materials Factory jointly invested to establish Nantong Starry Synthetic Materials Co., Ltd. China Bluestar is currently the largest PPO manufacturer in the country, with BS009 and BS012 being low molecular weight PPO.

In 2005, the Ruicheng branch of Nantong Xingchen built China's first 10,000-ton PPO industrial production facility, with a capacity of 10,000 tons, achieving the domestic production of PPO materials. In November 2017, the annual capacity of polyphenylene ether at the Ruicheng branch of Nantong Xingchen was expanded to 20,000 tons, initially meeting the rapidly growing market demand for polyphenylene ether products in China.

In 2020, Nantong Star's new 30,000-ton polyphenylene ether unit was successfully launched. With this, the PPE resin production capacity of China Bluestar - Nantong Star reached 50,000 tons per year, becoming the world's only manufacturer to master two process technologies for PPE resin, further consolidating its leading position in the PPE industry.

Xinbao New Materials Co., Ltd.

Xinbao New Materials Co., Ltd. is a new materials industry sector platform company under Xinbao Group. In recent years, it has focused on the new materials industry, such as polyphenylene ether. It is one of the companies capable of independently polymerizing PPO (PPE) powder. Currently, it has an annual production capacity of 10,000 tons in one production line and 40,000 tons in two production lines in Handan, Xingtai, and Tangshan.

In 2017, Handan Fengfeng Xinbao New Material Technology Co., Ltd. successfully tested its 10,000 tons/year PPO resin plant. This is also the first solution-based polyphenylene ether powder production line in the country, breaking through the foreign technological blockade on PPO powder production. In addition, there are 10 fully automatic modified production lines built in the Tangshan factory with an annual capacity of 120,000 tons, which is currently one of the largest PPO projects in terms of capacity in the country.

Dalian Zhongmu

Dalian Zhongmu Chemical Co., Ltd. was established in May 2018. It is an innovative high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, production, and sales of phenolic fine chemicals and polyphenylene ether (PPO/PPE), one of the world's five recognized engineering plastics. The project adopts the latest international technology, focusing on the production of PPO products, while also producing by-products such as o-cresol and the PPO raw material 2,6-dimethylphenol, with products replacing imports.

Since the first half of 2021 when the product entered stable mass production, Zhongmu Chemical's 10,000 tons/year 2,6-dimethylphenol raw material production facility, 7,200 tons/year ortho-cresol production facility, and 11,000 tons/year high-performance polyphenylene ether facility have been operating at full capacity.

In addition to the aforementioned companies, Shengquan Group's 1000-ton functionalized PPO project has been put into production in 2024, Dongcai Technology has the supply capacity of 100 tons of polyphenylene ether resin (PPO) per year, and Panjin Sanli Zhongke New Materials, Shanghai Zai Zheng Chemical, and Taiwan Jin Yi Chemical also have small-scale PPO production.

Overall, foreign PPO manufacturing enterprises still hold a significant advantage in terms of production volume, product diversity, and quality, while domestic PPO companies are also continuously increasing and improving. If there are any omissions, please feel free to leave a message to supplement!

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A Comprehensive Overview of Polyphenylene Oxide (PPO) Polymer Manufacturers!

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