Abstract: The invention relates to the use of phyllosilicates for improving the chemicals resistance, reducing the swelling, and improving the stress-cracking resistance of styrene copolymers, and to corresponding styrene copolymers, and to a process for their preparation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for the computer-implemented evaluation of electronic business processes using a computer system. In order to check the business process-relevant data contained in a business process (GP) received by the computer system, a static examination of data on the basis of character recognition is carried out in a first step and hypotheses on the content of every examined date are established. In a second step, a dynamic examination of the established hypotheses is carried out. According to the invention, a synchronization of the electronically recognized data contents with client- and/or material-specific data contained in a data base (200) is performed.

Abstract: The invention provides a weatherable low gloss styrene copolymer composition which requires the addition of from 0.1 to 20% by weight of the total composition, of a partially crystalline polymer such as a polyalkylterephthalate, especially polybutyleneterephthalate or polyethyleneterephthalate, or polyethylenenaphthalate to a styrene copolymer (A). The low gloss styrene copolymer composition of the invention has a graft copolymer resin which results from polymerizing one or more monomers (A1) selected from the group consisting of (i) aromatic vinyl compounds, (ii) ethylenically unsaturated compounds, and (iii) mixtures thereof, in the presence of an elastomeric rubber (A2) in particulate form.

Abstract: The thermoplastic molding compositions proposed comprise A) from 20 to 90% by weight, preferably from 30 to 80% by weight, particularly preferably from 40 to 75% by weight, of a thermoplastic polymer, and B) from 10 to 80% by weight, preferably from 20 to 70% by weight, particularly preferably from 25 to 60% by weight, of a crosslinked rubber having two or more phases, where the polymer A has a viscosity number, measured on a 0.5% strength solution in dimethylformamide at 23° C., of from 50 to 70 ml/g, preferably from 55 to 65 ml/g, and where at least 80% by number, preferably at least 85% by number, particularly preferably at least 90% by number, of the rubber particles B in the dispersion, after the preparation thereof, have a diameter of <0.2 &mgr;m, preferably <0.18 &mgr;m, particularly preferably <0.15 &mgr;m.

Abstract: The use of a thermoplastic molding composition which is not ABS, comprising, based on the total of the amounts of components A, B, C, and, where appropriate, D, this total being 100% by weight, a: as component A, from 1 to 48% by weight of at least one particulate emulsion polymer which has one or more phases and has a glass transition temperature below 0° C. in at least one phase, and has a median particle size from 50 to 1000 nm, b: as component B, from 1 to 48% by weight of at least one amorphous or semicrystalline polymer, c: as component C, from 51 to 90% by weight of polycarbonates, and d: as component D, from 0 to 47% by weight of conventional addictives and/or fibrous or particulate fillers, or a mixture of these, for producing moldings, or corresponding semifinished products, for the garden sector or animal-keeping sector.

Abstract: Flame-retardant thermoplastic molding compositions comprise A) from 40 to 98% by weight of a thermoplastic polyamide B) from 1 to 40% by weight of melamine cyanurate C) from 1 to 50% by weight of a fibrous filler which is pretreated with a silane compound and whose arithmetic mean fiber length (d50) is from 70 to 200 &mgr;m, or of an acicular mineral filler or a mixture of these D) from 0 to 30% by weight of other additives and processing aids where the total of the percentages by weight of components A) to D) is 100%.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions compriseA) from 5 to 99% by weight of a thermoplastic polymer selected from the group consisting of polyamides, polyesters, polyphenylene ethers and mixtures of these,B) from 1 to 60% by weight of red phosphorus which has been pretreated with from 0.01 to 2% by weight, based on 100% by weight of B), of a phlegmatizer and from 2 to 15% by weight of a mineral filler,C) from 0 to 70% by weight of other additives and processing aids,where the sum of the percentages by weight of components A) to C) is 100%.

Abstract: Partly aromatic semicrystalline thermoplastic polyamide molding compositions containA) from 40 to 100% by weight of a copolyamide composed ofa.sub.1) from 30 to 44 mol % of units which are derived from terephthalic acid,a.sub.2) from 6 to 20 mol % of units which are derived from isophthalic acid,a.sub.3) from 43 to 49.5 mol % of units which are derived from hexamethylenediamine anda.sub.4) from 0.5 to 7 mol % of units which are derived from aliphatic cyclic diamines of 6 to 30 carbon atoms,the molar percentages of components a.sub.1) to a.sub.4) together giving 100%, andB) from 0 to 50% by weight of a fibrous or particulate filler,C) from 0 to 30% by weight of an elastomeric polymer andD) from 0 to 30% by weight of conventional additives and processing assistants,the percentages by weight of components A) to D) together giving 100%.