Polymer Resin

Polymer Resin
Used for crafting. A by-product of oil refinement into fuel. Commonly used to manufacture plastics.
Unlocked at	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Blueprint path	/Game/FactoryGame/Resource/Parts/PolymerResin/Desc_PolymerResin.Desc_PolymerResin_C
Item
Stack size	200
Sink value	12

Polymer Resin is a solid byproduct derived from the Crude Oil refining process. It can be refined to useful products when combined with Water.

Obtaining

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Fuel	6 × Crude Oil 60 / min												Refinery 6 sec	4 × Fuel 40 / min 45 MJ/item	3 × Polymer Resin 30 / min 60 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Heavy Oil Residue Alternate	3 × Crude Oil 30 / min												Refinery 6 sec	4 × Heavy Oil Residue 40 / min 45 MJ/item	2 × Polymer Resin 20 / min 90 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Polymer Resin Alternate	6 × Crude Oil 60 / min												Refinery 6 sec	13 × Polymer Resin 130 / min 13.85 MJ/item	2 × Heavy Oil Residue 20 / min 90 MJ/item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing

Alternate recipes analysis

Polymer Resin is part of the Fuel production chain. See Fuel#Alternate recipes analysis for more info.

1. Polymer Resin is not a particularly desirable main product in Oil production, due to poor ratios. However, since both the default Fuel recipe and the Heavy Oil Residue alt create it as a byproduct, it is all but inevitable that a player with Fuel power will be generating it somehow, and it has to be disposed of in some way to avoid backing up. While this can be handled with the AWESOME Sink, merely adding water allows it to be used to produce Rubber, Plastic or Fabric (via a MAM unlock). This allows it to be used to allow a Fuel plant to augment the primary production of a Rubber or Plastic factory.
   • Residual Rubber makes 1 Rubber from 2 Resin and Residual Plastic makes 1 Plastic from 3 Resin ( the Polyester Fabric alt recipe makes 1 Fabric from 1 Resin )
   • It is important to still have a overflow Sink in a line handling Polymer Resin, as a safeguard against backing-up.
2. If you don't have access to a lot of alternative recipes, the Polymer Resin recipe can be used to double Residual Rubber production (or to slightly increase Residual Plastic production) . Otherwise it's useful in combination with the Polyester Fabric recipe to automatically produce fabric.
   - "Recycled What? Diluted Who?"

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Polyester Fabric	1 × Polymer Resin 30 / min						1 × Water 30 / min						Refinery 2 sec	1 × Fabric 30 / min 60 MJ/item		Mycelia Research - Synthetic Polyester Fabric
Residual Plastic	6 × Polymer Resin 60 / min						2 × Water 20 / min						Refinery 6 sec	2 × Plastic 20 / min 90 MJ/item		Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Residual Rubber	4 × Polymer Resin 40 / min						4 × Water 40 / min						Refinery 6 sec	2 × Rubber 20 / min 90 MJ/item		Tier 5 - Oil Processing

AWESOME Sink

 Polymer Resin can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 12 points.

Gallery

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  A closed-loop of petrochemical with Plastics, Rubber, and Fuel as final products with no by-product which requires one or more Alternative recipes.

History

• Patch 0.3.2.2 Increased production rates of all by-product refinement recipes
• Patch 0.3 Introduced