Abstract
The production and demand for petroleum waxes yearly increased during these ten years, and they are used much in many fields, such as in reinforcing paper materials, manufacturing chlocinated paraffin, candles, matches, and stationeries, and in bending with raw rubber and so on. Petroleum waxes thus now become the necesaries of our modern lives.
Owing to many kinds of new agents to be blended with waxes for improving their properties, petroleum waxes are converted into new “plastics”, and the old image of waxes is now altered.
Their new characteristics enable to open more demands hereafter, especially in paper-reinforcement.
Petroleum waxes will also be used for raw materials petrochemical and fermentation industries in whcih mass productions of fatty acids, alcohols, α-olefins or proteins from waxes are under planning, and the petroleum wax industry faces to its bright future.
