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Research and development activities on polymer for the 21st century in korea
Author(s) -
Kim Un Young,
Kim Kwang Ung
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.199509801116
Subject(s) - commodity , production (economics) , commerce , business , engineering , manufacturing engineering , agricultural economics , natural resource economics , industrial organization , economics , finance , macroeconomics
The polymer industries have been expanded steadily from the beginning of 1970's. Accordingly, the production capacity of commodity plastics reached 5.37 million tons in 1993, which ranked fourth in the world. The market for the engineering plastics is not fully matured yet, but the recent annual increasing rate was higher than 20% for demand and 40% for production. A state of the art for research and development activities on polymer for 21st century in Korea will be briefly reviewed in terms of technology evolution, polymers for electronic industry, for environment, and for energy saving.