Abstract: Copolymers of ethylene have from 1 to 30 mol % of alkyl(meth)acrylates and, if desired, other comonomers, and have a residual comonomer content of less than 0.5% by weight in the copolymer. A process for preparing copolymers of this type in a combination of stirred autoclave and tubular reactor is described, as is the use of the copolymers for preparing polyamide molding compositions.

Abstract: Cosmetic preparations comprising polyethylene waxes having improved organoleptic properties

Abstract: In a process for preparing polyethylene waxes at from 200 to 350° C. and pressures in the range from 500 to 4 000 bar using molar mass regulators, a peroxide mixture comprising from 5 to 95% by weight of at least one cyclic peroxide of the formula I, where the radicals R are identical or different and are selected from among alkyl groups and aryl groups, is used as free radical initiator and a molar H2/ethylene ratio of from 1:2 000 to 1:40 000 is employed.

Abstract: In a process for preparing ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers in which a mixture of ethylene and vinyl acetate is polymerized continuously in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators and, if desired, molecular weight regulators in a cooled tube reactor at a pressure in the range from 1000 to 3500 bar, and the poly-merization initiator is added at the beginning and at two or more points along the tube reactor, and temperature changes in the reaction mixture along the tube reactor, between the first temperature maximum and the last addition of the polymerization initiator, are within a range of not more than 20° C.

Abstract: Emulsifiable ethylene polymers comprising copolymers of from 90 to 95% by weight of ethylene, from 4 to 10% by weight of one or more C3-C12 alkenecarboxylic acids, and from 0 to 1.2% by weight of one or more tertiary esters of the corresponding C3-C12 alkenecarboxylic acids, where the wax has a cinematic melt viscosity of from 800 to 3000 mm2/s, measured at 120° C.; and a process for preparing the novel emulsifiable ethylene polymers, emulsions comprising the novel ethylene polymers, a process for preparing the emulsions from the novel ethylene polymers, and also floor cleaners, car cleaners, leather cleaners and stone cleaners, and coatings for surfaces made from wood, metal, paper, glass or from plastics, comprising aqueous emulsions of the novel emulsifable waxes.

Abstract: A probe for temperature measurement, comprising a probe, body which has a cylindrical hole into which a thermocouple or a resistance thermometer can be inserted, whose thermosensitive tip projects from the forward section of the probe body, the forward section of the probe body being provided with an annular gap at a small distance from the cylindrical hole .

Abstract: Pigment concentrates comprising at least one pigment, a polyethylene wax prepared from one ethylene and, if desired, one comonomer using a metallocene catalyst, if desired a thermoplastic polymer and, if desired, additives can be used to color plastic moldings and plastic sheets.

Abstract: A process for coating a reactor, which comprises depositing a metal layer or a metal/polymer dispersion layer on the internal surface of the reactor in an electroless manner by bringing the surfaces into contact with a metal electrolyte solution which, besides the metal electrolyte, comprises a reducing agent and optionally a halogenated polymer to be deposited in dispersed form.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions comprise A) from 10 to 90% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer, B) from 1 to 20% by weight of a polyethylene which contains carboxyl groups and has a mean molecular weight Mn (number average) of from 24,000 to 100,000 g/mol, C) from 5 to 60% by weight of a halogen-free flame retardant D) from 0 to 70% by weight of other additives and processing aids, where the total of the percentages by weight of components A) to D) is 100%

Abstract: A catalyst composition suitable for the (co)polymerization of alk-1-enes is obtainable by mixing a metallocene complex with a C3-C20-alk-1-ene in an inert solvent, reacting the resulting mixture in a controlled manner with a compound capable of forming metallocenium ions and diluting the resulting mixture with an inert nonpolar, essentially aliphatic solvent, and also, if desired, applying the catalyst composition to a particulate support material.

Abstract: A catalyst solution for polymerizing &agr;-olefins is obtainable by reacting a metallocene compound with an activator compound which can react with the metallocene compound so as to displace a ligand from the central atom and stabilize the resulting cationic complex by a non-coordinating anion as an ion pair, adding one or more &agr;-olefins in a molar ratio of metallocene compound: &agr;-olefins of from 1:1 und 1:100 and mixing with at least 10 parts by volume of an aliphatic hydrocarbon.

Abstract: In a process for the high-pressure polymerization of ethylene in a high-pressure autoclave or in a high-pressure tube reactor having one or more metering points for one or more peroxides, no peroxide or a reduced amount of peroxide is metered in during the time interval in which the pressure is lowered by opening a pressure maintenance valve and the original amount of peroxide per unit time is metered in again as soon as the pressure after closure of the pressure maintenance valve has built up again so that it exceeds 90% of the pressure difference between nominal pressure and lowered pressure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for pressurizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers to 200-5000 bar in the absence of a polymerization initiator, which comprises effecting said pressurizing in the presence of nitroxyl compounds of the formula I where R1 and R2 are singly C1-C4-alkyl or combine with the joining carbon atom to form a 5- or 6-membered saturated hydrocarbon ring, R3 is C1-C4-alkyl, and R4 is hydrogen or C1-C12-alkyl. Also disclosed are a process for preparing copolymers by such pressurization and subsequent polymerization and copolymers obtainable thereby.

Abstract: Oxidized waxes are obtainable by oxidation of polyolefins obtainable by means of metallocene catalysis and having a molecular weight Mw in the range from 1000 to 40,000 g/mol.

Abstract: In a process for the high-pressure polymerization of ethylene in a high-pressure autoclave or in a high-pressure tube reactor having one or more metering points for one or more peroxides, no peroxide or a reduced amount of peroxide is metered in during the time interval in which the pressure is lowered by opening a pressure maintenance valve and the original amount of peroxide per unit time is metered in again as soon as the pressure after closure of the pressure maintenance valve has built up again so that it exceeds 90% of the pressure difference between nominal pressure and lowered pressure.

Abstract: In a process for preparing polyethylene waxes at from 200 to 350° C.

Abstract: A process is described for copolymerizing ethylene with vinyl esters and, if desired, with further vinylic comonomers in a tube reactor at pressures of from 500 to 4000 bar and at not more than 220° C., which comprises initiating the free-radical polymerization at at least two locations of the tube reactor by adding a catalyst/initiator and adjusting the temperature profile within the reactor such that the temperature maxima downstream of the initiation locations are from 150 to 220° C. and differ by less than ±10° C. from one another.

Abstract: Emulsifiable ethylene polymers comprising copolymers of

Abstract: A process for preparing oxidized polyolefin waxes by reacting polyolefin waxes with oxygen or oxygen-containing gases at from 140 to 200° C. and at pressures of from 5 to 200 bar involves conducting the oxidation reaction continuously in a tube reactor but excludes the reaction of polyolefins prepared by metallocene catalysis.

Abstract: Storage-stable crosslinkable RTV-1 compositions comprising at least one tin catalyst obtained by the reaction of at least one organotin compound with at least one monoorthophosphoric acid or mixture of mono and di-orthophosphoric acids, and at least one crosslinkable polysiloxane.