The present invention provides a carbodiimide composition containing a water-soluble modified polycarbodiimide (A) and a water-insoluble polycarbodiimide (B), a curing agent composition using the same, a coating composition, and a resin cured product.

Polyurethane foams are made by curing a reaction mixture that contains an aromatic polyisocyanate, at least one isocyanate-reactive material having an average functionality of at least 2 and an equivalent weight of at least 200 per isocyanate-reactive group, at least one blowing agent, at least one surfactant, at least one catalyst, and certain aldehyde-suppressing additives. Foams so produced emit low levels of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and propionaldehyde.

Disclosed is an adhesive for laminated sheets comprising a urethane resin obtained by blending: (A) an acrylic polyol; (B) at least one component selected from carboxylic acids and carboxylic anhydrides; and (C) an isocyanate compound. The acrylic polyol (A) is obtained by polymerization of a polymerizable monomer, has a glass transition temperature of from −35° C. to 20° C., and has a hydroxyl value of from 0.5 to 40 mgKOH/g. The adhesive for laminated sheets is excellent in initial adhesion to a film, peel strength after aging and hydrolysis resistance for a long time under high temperature when a laminated sheet is produced, and wherein the adhesive does not impart an adverse effect to the appearance of the laminated sheet and the lamination process of films while improving the curability. The laminated sheet is suitably prepared using the adhesive for laminated sheets. An article comprising the laminated sheet can be prepared using the laminated sheet.

The present invention suggests a curable organic polymer comprising at least one acylurea unit represented by structural formula (I):

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Moreover, the present invention suggests a process for the preparation of said polymer and the use of said curable organic polymer for the preparation of a cured composition and for the preparation of hydroxyurethanes.

Provided is a process for producing a polyisocyanurate comprising: trimerizing an aliphatic polyisocyanate with a trimerization catalyst in the presence of a thermally decomposable acid at a molar ratio of acid to catalyst of from 0.1 to 10, wherein the polyisocyanurate has a greater pot life than the pot life of the polyisocyanurate not containing the thermally decomposable acid. Polyisocyanurates made according to the inventive process lengthen the pot life of pultrusion composite formulations made therefrom without affecting the reactivity of the formulations. The pultrusion composite formulations of the invention may be cured and pultruded to yield a variety of products such as wind turbine blades, yacht shells, window frames, door frames, ladder frames, telegraph pole cross arms, tent poles, solar cell frames, solar cell backsheets, radomes, highway guard rails, floor boards, pipes, telegraph poles, auto trunks, luggage holders, engine covers, golf clubs, tennis poles, badminton poles, bicycle frames, surfboards, and snowboards.

A method for preparing an acid solution by contacting at least one aromatic carboxylic or sulfonic acid with at least one polyether having blocked hydroxyl groups as a solvent. The polyether having blocked hydroxyl groups is not volatile and exhibits a surprisingly high dissolving capacity for the aromatic carboxylic or sulfonic acid. The acid solution is very compatible in curable compositions and does not cause any emission or odor or migration effects. The acid solution is particularly suitable as a constituent of polyurethane compositions having latent curing agents for accelerating the hydrolysis of the latent reactive groups.

The invention concerns a composition for use as drier in auto-oxidizable coatings or as accelerator in unsaturated polyester resins, comprising a manganese-bearing polymer having a manganese dicarboxylate repeating unit and at least one nitrogen-containing donor ligand. Such compositions offer excellent drying performances. They ensure a strongly reduced leachability of manganese compared to that of known manganese-bearing driers.

Provided is a lactic acid-based block copolymer which is biodegradable while having excellent mechanical properties.

This invention provides a cationic electrodeposition paint composition comprising an amino-group-containing epoxy resin (A), a blocked polyisocyanate compound (B), and a modified imidazole (C) having a specific structure, wherein the cationic electrodeposition paint composition satisfies the following (i) or (ii), or both: (i) the cationic electrodeposition paint composition further comprises a rust inhibitor (D) or (ii) a blocking agent (b-2) of the blocked polyisocyanate compound (B) is an oxime-based compound (b-2-1) and/or a pyrazole-based compound (b-2-2).

The composition comprises a compound (A) represented by general formula (1) and a compound (B) represented by general formula (2), and comprises 0.00002 to 2.0 parts by mass of the compound (B) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the compound (A),

(R.sub.1—COO).sub.n—R.sub.2—(NCO).sub.m   (1)

g(R.sub.1—COO).sub.n—R.sub.2—NHC(═O)NH—R.sub.2—(OCO—R.sub.1).sub.m   (2)

wherein in general formulae (1) and (2), R.sub.1 is an ethylenically unsaturated group having 2 to 7 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is a (m+n)-valent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms and optionally contain an ether group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 in the general formula (1) are the same as R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 in the general formula (2); and n and m each represent an integer of one or two.