Despite their various assessments in production and ecological terms, non-traditional materials combined under the term inhibited plastics have already been assimilated within the sphere of engineering materials that form the base of modern industry. As long as inhibited plastics play a specific role in the global problem of protecting metals from corrosion damage, they fulfill a social function in counterbalancing the cost of metal damaged by corrosion and the repair of industrial equipment.

Inhibited plastics are science-intensive products that emerged from the fundamental achievements of electrochemistry, materials science, polymer technology, tribology and a number of other disciplines. Many aspects of their development and adoption in the sphere of preserving metal stocks are related to strategic activities guarded by the state.

It is believed that the following directions in the development and perfection of inhibited plastics will gain popularity in the near future:

• A class of polymer binders intended specifically for regulated thermody-namic compatibility with CI of different types will be created. Their joint extrusion will not suffer from the destruction or deterioration of the protective ability of inhibitors. Along with this, the problem of developing thermostable CI that can withstand co-extrusion with plastics awaits solution.

• The technology of inhibited plastics will progress in the direction of alternative methods of processing that do not subject raw stocks to high temperatures. Non-traditional technologies for inhibited plastics that are typical of composite materials, such as reactive extrusion, combinations of solution procedures, meltblowing and others will gain ground. This will widen the range of...