Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110 micrometers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110 micrometers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110 micrometers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110 micrometers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110 micrometers.

Abstract: Polymer dispersant of polycarboxylate type comprising at least one copolymer obtained from a monomer composition comprising, in moles: A) 40 to 95% of at least one unsaturated carboxylic monomer, B) 5 to 60% of at least one acrylic ester or methacrylic ester monomer comprising a polyether chain, C) 0 to 20% of at least one third monomer selected from: acrylic ester or methacrylic ester or acrylamide or acrylamide derivative or vinylaromatic monomer or its sulphonated derivative, the copolymer having a controlled molecular mass distribution and being able to be obtained by a process comprising the stages of: i) polymerization in aqueous solution at a temperature ranging from 70 to 95° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110 micrometers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110 micrometers.

Abstract: Compositions of acrylic polymers comprising: A) from 70% to 99.5% by weight of a thermoplastic resin based on homopolymers or copolymers formed by monomers containing only one double bond polymerizable by radical route, of which at least 20% by weight are (meth)acrylic monomers, B) from 0.5% to 30% by weight of a preferably crosslinked elastomer having an on-set glass transition temperature (Tg) lower than 0° C., in said composition the component B) being dispersed in the resin A) under the form of spherical and/or elongated particles having a diameter in the range of about 10 nm-2,000 nm, the particles of component B) optionally including particles of component A).

Abstract: Antinoise and flame-resistant barriers formed by supports and by sheets fixed thereon, characterized by the fact that the sheets consist of a methylmethacrylate copolymer and acrylic acid comprised between 1 and 20% by weight.

Abstract: Process for preparing antistatic acrylic polymers wherein the acrylic monomers are polymerized in suspension, said acrylic monomers contain dissolved the antistatic additives selected from the following ones: CnH2n+1CO—N(CH2CH2OH)2  (1) wherein n is an integer ranging from 9 to 13; Cn′H2n′+1N(CH2CH2OH)2  (2) wherein n′ is an integer ranging from 8 to 14; CH2(OR1)CH(OR2)CH2(OR3) or C(CH2OR1)(CH2OR2)(CH2OR3)(CH2OR4)  (3) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 equal to or different from each other, are H or R, wherein R is a saturated or unsaturated C12-C18 alkylcarboxylate, preferably saturated or monounsaturated C18.

Abstract: Process for the polymerization in aqueous suspension of acrylic monomers in the presence of a polymeric suspending agent, homopolymer or copolymer of a compound of formula: wherein: R1 is H or CH3; R2 and R3, equal or different, are H or alkyls C1-C8, optionally branched when possible; M is an alkaline or alkaline-earth metal or ammonium and A is NH, O or NCH3, characterized in that the polymerization aqueous phase is wholly or partly formed by the mother waters obtained after the separation of the acrylic polymer, so as to have a polymerizable suspension containing at least 0.01% by weight and up to about 1% of said suspending agent and at least from 0.05% to 5% by weight of the other products above mentioned obtained during the polymerization.

Abstract: Process for the polymerization of acrylic monomers in aqueous suspension, wherein at least a comonomer has a solubility in water of at least 5 g per 100 g of water, to obtain copolymers containing the hydrosoluble comonomer up to 60% by weigh, in the presence of a radical initiator soluble in The monomer and of a polymeric suspending agent selected from the homopolymer of a compound of formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 ; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, equal or different, are H or alkyls C.sub.1 -C.sub.8, optionally branched when possible; M is an alkaline or alkaline-earth metal or ammonium and A is NH, O or NCH.sub.

Abstract: Process for the polymerization in aqueous suspension of acrylic monomers in the presence of a polymeric suspending agent, homopolymer or copolymer of a compound of formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 ; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, equal or different, are H or alkyls C.sub.1 -C.sub.8, optionally branched when possible; M is an alkaline or alkaline-earth metal or ammonium and A is NH, O or NCH.sub.3, characterized in that the polymerization aqueous phase is wholly or partly formed by the mother waters obtained after the separation of the acrylic polymer, so as to have a polymerizable suspension containing at least 0,01% by weight and up to about 1% of said suspending agent and at least from 0.05% to 5% by weight of the other products above mentioned obtained during the polymerization.

Abstract: Process for preparing beads based on acrylic polymers which comprises the preparation of microbeads from 10 to 40 micron by means of a polymerization process in suspension of acrylic monomers in the presence of at least a crosslinking monomer at least bifunctional, characterized in that a second polymerization of the acrylic monomers is carried out in absence of crosslinking monomers and using as suspending phase a fraction of the suspension obtained in the preceding polymerization containing a crosslinking agent, said fraction containing an amount of microbeads comprised between 3 and 40% by weight with respect to the final polymer obtained in the second polymerization.