Polyacrylamide is a polymer formed by cross-linking acrylamide units with each other. The polymer is non-toxic, but may be harmful to health due to the presence of a certain amount of unpolymerized acrylamide monomer in the product. Polyacrylamide is widely used in oil extraction, mining industry, paper industry, water treatment industry, agriculture, cosmetics and food industry, and the production of contact lenses, etc. Recently, polyacrylamide has been used in cosmetic plastic surgery as a new type of subcutaneous implant filler.
Currently there are about
companies in the world (mainly companies with large economic scale) that provide polyacrylamide for the global oil extraction industry. The top five companies are the French Essen Group
, Finnish Camera Company
, Japan
Co., Ltd., American Ashland Company and German BASF Company. The main global polyacrylamide manufacturing centers are located in China, North America and Europe. Polyacrylamide manufacturers such as Kemera, BASF and Eisen Group have large plants in these regions. In North America, demand for polyacrylamide has remained at a high level due to the concentration of end-users in the oil extraction, papermaking and water treatment industries. Since many countries in the Asia-Pacific region now pursue preferential investment policies and the market demand for polyacrylamide downstream industries is strong, major companies have also set up factories in the Asia-Pacific region. Among them, China, Japan, India and other countries are gradually becoming hot spots for polyacrylamide production and consumption. As the largest consumer of polyacrylamide, China still has broad potential in tertiary oil recovery technology.
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