Abstract: An inorganic porous material, having uniform pores defined by pore walls of crystalline titanium oxide. The inorganic porous material may be produced by heating an organic inorganic mesostructured material containing titanium and having a hexagonal crystal phase at a temperature and for a period of time sufficient to form a porous material having a multiplicity of pores defined by pore walls containing crystalline titanium oxide.

Abstract: The invention provides low temperature thermally activatable water-dispersed adhesive compositions and adhesives made from the compositions by removing water. The adhesive compositions of the invention comprise a mixture of low modulus crystallizing polyester polyurethane, acrylic ester copolymer, one or more hydrophobically-modified associative polyurethanes, and a stabilizer system comprising a combination of carbodiimide and branched primary amino alcohol.

Abstract: A biaxially oriented polyolefin multilayer film having a skin layer having oil-absorbing voids is disclosed. The film has substantially a small amount of void-initiating particles in the skin layer and typically no fillers in the core layer. Yet the film shows no visible distortion after exposure to food products such as potato chips.

Abstract: Polyethylene films having desired water vapor transmission rates (WVTR) and methods of producing the same are provided. The methods include adherently superimposing at least one layer of a WVTR-controlling material to a base layer including a polyethylene and a cavitating agent, and subsequently biaxially orienting the composite polyethylene sheet to yield a film having the desired WVTR. The base layer has a porous microstructure and a WVTR substantially higher than the desired WVTR.

Abstract: Biaxially oriented films having a substantially non-voided pigmented core layer of a propylene homopolymer, an intermediate layer of a voided propylene homopolymer, and two outer layers of a heat sealable olefin polymer. Such films can be heat sealed to form seals with high seal integrity.

Abstract: A weatherstrip having a migration inhibiting layer including a butyl based elastomer, wherein the butyl based elastomer can include a blend of a halogenated butyl and EPDM. The migration inhibiting layer can be located on at least one of a dense portion and an expanded portion of the weatherstrip and is selected to substantially preclude the passage of decomposition products, thereby reducing odor emanation from the strip and discoloration from staining materials. The migration inhibiting layer may also include coloring agents thereby providing a colored weatherstrip.

Abstract: A multi-layered colored thermoplastic film comprising an opaque core layer comprising a thermoplastic material and a first skin layer comprising a thermoplastic material with a coloring agent adjacent to the core layer, and a method producing same.

Abstract: A process for producing a foamed article of a thermoplastic resin composition having a relatively thicker solid skin layer exhibiting better appearance without occurrence of swirl mark and having a foam structure of relatively uniform foam cell size with better foam cell configuration, which is light-weighing and superior in the stiffness, in an easy and efficient manner, by causing the said resin composition to foam up in a cavity of a mold, which process comprises

Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging material made of a multilayer oriented polyolefin film, which comprises a base layer and at least one first outer layer, whereby the first outer layer is placed in contact with itself or in contact with the opposing surface of the film or in contact with the surface of another film. This first outer layer contains an additive which absorbs light within the wavelength range of a laser such that when the film is locally irradiated by the laser, the area of irradiation experiences an increase in temperature that causes the polyolefin of the first outer layer to soften or melt in the irradiated area and to bond to another layer when cooled.

Abstract: A composite structure includes a polyolefin foam in adherence with a film. The film comprises ethylene/styrene interpolymer, homogeneous ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer, and various blends of such materials. Advantageously, the film in adherence with the foam sheet results in a coefficient of friction ranging from about 0.5 to about 2.0 as measured at the upper surface of the film.

Abstract: Polymeric films including a layer of propylene polymer resin having microvoids therein, the microvoids having been formed by stretching a web containing the beta-form of polypropylene, have shown low static cling when being unwound from rolls in labelling operations and also during destacking of pre-formed labels. The invention provides labels formed from such films.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an interior automotive trim member comprising a backing substrate, a layer of elastomeric material bonded to and overlying the backing substrate, and a soft skin formed of polyolefinic material. The soft skin is bonded to and overlies the layer of elastomeric material. The soft skin is cured by electron beam curing. The present invention also relates to a method of making a soft skin for use with an interior automotive trim member comprising a backing substrate, a layer of elastomeric material bonded to and overlying the backing substrate, and the soft skin bonded to and overlying the layer of elastomeric material. The method comprises providing a polyolefinic material, and exposing the polyolefinic material to electron beam radiation to cure the polyolefinic material.

Abstract: A foamed polyethylene product has an outer sheath of non-foamed polyethylene fused to an underlying foamed body portion. Preferably, the product is produced in an in-line method when the foam body is extruded and subsequently the skin is extruded directly on the body portion. This process only causes limited thermal degradation of an outer layer of the body portion which improves adhesion of the skin to the body portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a layered product comprising a skin layer and a cushioning layer and/or a reinforcing layer, said skin layer being a thermoplastic elastomer composition which comprises (A) 1-99 parts by weight of. an ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer produced by polymerizing ethylene and an &agr;-olefin of 3-12 carbon atoms using a metallocene catalyst and (B) 1-99 parts by weight of a propylene resin [total amount of (A) and (B) being 100 parts by weight], said ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer being partially or completely crosslinked. According to the present invention, a layered product can be provided which is excellent in flexibility, has a rubber-like or leather-like appearance, and is excellent in abrasion resistance, mechanical strength and environmental resistance.

Abstract: An opaque, oriented polymeric film structure comprising: a core layer comprising a thermoplastic polymeric matrix material wherein the core layer has a first side and a second side, the core layer having a plurality of voids, substantially all or all of the voids being free from a void-initiating particle and at least some of the voids being interconnected with an adjacent void in the polymeric matrix material, the number of voids not containing a void-initiating particle being sufficient to impart a significant degree of opacity to the film structure, wherein the core layer comprises the interior of the film structure; and a first skin layer comprising a thermoplastic polymeric material and an effective amount of a high-melting incompatible additive to suppress cavitation in said first skin layer, wherein the first skin layer is exterior to the first side of the core layer.

Abstract: A semi-opaque cavitated multilayer plastic film suitable for packaging and labeling applications, and having at least one image applied to an outer skin surface thereof. The film includes a whitening agent in at least one layer, and preferably includes an optical brightener to enhance the lightness of the image. The controlled opacity of the film allows optimal viewing of the image in both reflected and/or transmitted light.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to composite flooring materials and methods for making the same. The composite materials have a first film adhered to a first surface of a polyolefin foam sheet and a second film adhered to a second surface of the polyolefin foam sheet. At least one edge of the second film extends beyond a corresponding edge of the polyolefin foam sheet.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-layered stretched resin film which comprises a base layer (A) containing 40 to 90 wt % of a polyolefinic resin and 10 to 60 wt % of an inorganic fine powder or an organic filler; and an amorphous resin-containing layer (B) provided on at least one side of such base layer (A), and containing 0 to 85 wt % of a polyolefinic resin and 15 to 100 wt % of an amorphous resin; where the amorphous resin-containing layer (B) has a porosity of 5% or below. Such multi-layered stretched resin film is successfully exempt from being waved or curled due to vehicle contained in offset printing ink during offset printing, and can thus ensure excellent printability.

Abstract: A cellular rubber profile for the sealing of two components which cooperate with one another is disclosed. The profile has a black base structure and a non-black overlay structure which is co-extruded with the base structure. The overlay structure overlies the base structure in the manner of a cap. Opposite the overlay structure the profile has a foot portion with lateral protuberances.

Abstract: Disclosed is a layered product comprising a skin layer and a cushioning layer and/or a reinforcing layer, said skin layer being a thermoplastic elastomer composition which comprises (A) 1-99 parts by weight of an ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer produced by polymerizing ethylene and an &agr;-olefin of 3-12 carbon atoms using a metallocene catalyst and (B) 1-99 parts by weight of a propylene resin [total amount of (A) and (B) being 100 parts by weight], said ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer being partially or completely crosslinked.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a foamed polyolefin resin sheet which exhibits a high adhesive strength when laminated with a layer formed of a saponified ethylene-vinyl ester copolymer and which still exhibits a high adhesive strength even when laminated with a layer of a thermoplastic resin having relatively low polarity such as a polyolefin resin. This object is attained by a foamed polyolefin resin sheet including a foamed polyolefin resin layer and a non-foamed surface layer formed of a thermoplastic resin composition having an A1/A2 ratio falling within a range between 1×10−8 and 1×10−1, wherein A1 is a maximum absorbance of the infrared absorption spectrum of the thermoplastic resin composition within an infrared ray wave number region of from 1700 to 1750 cm−1 and A2 is a maximum absorbance of the infrared absorption spectrum of the thermoplastic resin composition within an infrared ray wave number region of from 1455 to 1465 cm−1.

Abstract: The problem to be solved is to provide an automobile interior headliner member which is improved in the film forming property of a complex plastic material used as a base material of the automobile interior headliner member, and has high rigidity and excellent heat resistance, size stability and working efficiency upon attachment; and the base material.An automobile interior headliner molding or forming member which is obtained by kneading mica having a particle size of 10 to 100 µm with a polypropylene resin having a melt flow rate at 230°C of 3 to 40 g/10 min to obtain the corresponding resin having a mica content of 15 to 40 wt.%, molding or forming the resin into a mica-containing polypropylene sheet of 100 to 300 µm thick and then stacking this sheet over each of both sides of an expanded polypropylene sheet of 2 to 6 mm thick obtained at an expansion ratio of 5 to 50 times; and an automobile interior headliner member molded or formed from the molding or forming member.

Abstract: An oriented multilayer film comprises:

Abstract: Polymeric films including a layer of propylene resin having microvoids therein, the microvoids having been formed by stretching a web containing the beta-form of polypropylene, have shown low static cling when being unwound from rolls in labelling operations and also during destacking of pre-formed labels. The invention provides labels formed from such films.

Abstract: Ionomer present in a polyethylene resin from about 1 to 40% by weight of the resin produces superior extruded foam sheet products that approach the pore size and resiliency of foams prepared from chemical blowing agents. The results can be achieved at normal extrusion rates and on standard extrusion foaming equipment. Tear strength is improved so that collapsible foam packaging products can be produced in which the foam body is cut through except for a surface thereof that remains intact to provide a hinge or joint about which the cut foam bodies can be pivoted.

Abstract: The present invention embodies covers, especially those used in the textile industry. Some covers are made of a polypropylene comprising less than 90 percent isotactic linkages and a thermoplastic block copolymer comprising hard segments of polystyrene combined with soft segments. Other covers are made of metallocene-catalyzed polyolefins and thermoplastic block copolymers. The durable-abrasion resistant covers typically have a high static coefficient of friction.

Abstract: The pad according to the invention can adhere to a polished surface for an extended period of time. It comprises a core support layer made of foam plastic material, for example a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate, and electrostatic layer, for example comprising a polypropylene base electrostatic film, on one face of the pad. The opposite face of the pad must be capable of receiving thereon information to be displayed. The foam plastic material is characterized by having a closed cell structure and a density between 1.5 and 4, and by being capable of retaining electrostatic charges between the core support layer and the electrostatic layer after being activated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to laminates prepared using reactive hot melt adhesives. The reactive hot melt adhesives are the reaction product of a polyurethane prepolymer and a vinyl chloride based thermoplastic copolymer.

Abstract: A composite structure generally includes a polyolefin foam sheet and a film in adherence with the foam sheet. The film includes a blend of polyethylene and a thermoplastic elastomer. The elastomer includes a copolymer or terpolymer having a styrenic component and a rubbery component, the rubbery component having at least one carbon-carbon double bond. The rubbery component makes up at least about 70 wt. % of the thermoplastic elastomer. The resultant composite structure has a coefficient of friction ranging from about 0.5 to about 2.0, as measured at the upper surface of the film.

Abstract: A foam layer can be formed at a temperature at which the surface quality of a surface layer is not deteriorated, and a molding technique that is excellent in adhesiveness of a foam layer and a surface layer or/and a base member is developed. For the purpose of obtaining a resin molding composite, the present invention is characterized by a polyolefin resin molding composite comprising a surface layer and a foam layer, or a surface layer, a foam layer, and a base member, wherein the foam layer comprises a foam layer produced by fusion bonding thermoplastic expanded resin particles one another by molding, where the thermoplastic expanded resin particles comprises a core that is made of a crystalline thermoplastic resin and is in an expanded state and a polyethylene resin coat covering the core, and the surface layer comprises a thermoplastic synthetic resin having a melting point of 5° C. or more higher than a melting point of polyethylene resin constituting the coat of the particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides an osmium oxide composition comprising an osmium oxide microencapsulated in an aromatic polyolefin (hereinafter abbreviated as MCOsOx), a method for preparation of MCOsOx, which comprises allowing an osmium oxide to contact with an aromatic polyolefin in an organic solvent, and precipitating MCOsOx, an oxidizing agent comprising MCOsOx, a method for preparing a chiral diol compound, which comprises reacting MCOsOx, a chiral ligand and an olefin compound with each other, and a method for preparing a chiral diol compound, which comprises oxidizing an olefin compound with MCOsOx, wherein a chiral ligand further coordinates to an osmium oxide.

Abstract: A composition and method for promoting improved adhesion between a thermoplastic resinous substrate and polyurethane foam is provided. In one aspect of this invention, the composition comprises a thermoplastic mixture of at least one polyphenylene ether and at least one poly(alkenylaromatic) compound; and at least one primary amine-containing material or secondary amine-containing material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a imaging element comprising a paper having a surface roughness average of between 0.13 and 0.44 micrometers.

Abstract: Adhere a polymer blend facer to at least one, preferably both, primary surfaces of a foam panel or board to provide a laminate with a combination of enhanced strength and resistance to bending relative to the foam panel. The polymer blend facer, prepared from a combination of an alkenyl aromatic polymer and an interpolymer of ethylene, an alkenyl aromatic monomer or hindered aliphatic or cycloaliphatic vinylidene monomer, provides an added benefit in terms of greater recyclability into a foam panel relative to biaxially oriented polypropylene. The polymer blend facer may be a film or a thin foam sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic molded part comprising at least a polyolefin or a polycondensation polymer and reinforcing fibers, characterized in that 1 to 60 wt. % of the molded part consists of reinforcing fibers with a length of between 0.8 and 15 mm, at least a portion of which is present partly in the center and partly in the non-porous dish surface, and that the molded part has a porosity of between 5 and 95 vol. %.

Abstract: Biaxially oriented polymeric films having a core layer of a voided propylene homopolymer with a density of not more than 0.70 g/cm3, and at least one substantially non-voided layer on each surface of the core layer, the ratio of the combined thicknesses of the non-voided layers on the respective surfaces of the core layer being from 2:1 to 1:1. Films in accordance with the present invention have low curl, particularly after having been printed.

Abstract: A porous resin film which comprises 30 to 90 wt % of a thermoplastic resin containing a hydrophilic thermoplastic resin component; and 70 to 10 wt % of an inorganic or organic fine powder was disclosed. The porous resin film of the present invention is valuable as an ink-jet recording medium since the film shows excellent ink absorbing and drying properties even when a large amount of ink is discharged thereon, and thus can produce thereon a high-definition image.

Abstract: A foamed polyethylene product has an outer sheath of non-foamed polyethylene fused to an underlying foamed body portion. Preferably, the product is produced in an in-line method when the foam body is extruded and subsequently the skin is extruded directly on the body portion. This process only causes limited thermal degradation of an outer layer of the body portion which improves adhesion of the skin to the body portion.

Abstract: A foam layer can be formed at a temperature at which the surface quality of a surface layer is not deteriorated, and a molding technique that is excellent in adhesiveness of a foam layer and a surface layer or/and a base member is developed. For the purpose of obtaining a polypropylene resin molding composite for automobile, the present invention is characterized by a polypropylene resin molding composite for automobile comprising a surface layer and a foam layer, or a surface layer, a foam layer, and a base member, wherein the surface layer comprises a surface layer of a polypropylene resin and a laminate of a cushioning material, where the cushioning material is a polypropylene resin expanded sheet, and the foam layer comprises thermoplastic resin expanded particles comprising a core that is made of a polypropylene resin and is in an expanded state and a polyethylene resin coat layer covering the core and is in a substantially non-expanded state.

Abstract: The problem to be solved is to provide an automobile interior headliner member which is improved in the film forming property of a complex plastic material used as a base material of the automobile interior headliner member, and has high rigidity and excellent heat resistance, size stability and working efficiency upon attachment; and the base material. An automobile interior headliner molding or forming member which is obtained by kneading mica having a particle size of 10 to 100 &mgr;m with a polypropylene resin having a melt flow rate at 230° C. of 3 to 40 g/10 min to obtain the corresponding resin having a mica content of 15 to 40 wt. %, molding or forming the resin into a mica-containing polypropylene sheet of 100 to 300 &mgr;m thick and then stacking this sheet over each of both sides of an expanded polypropylene sheet of 2 to 6 mm thick obtained at an expansion ratio of 5 to 50 times; and an automobile interior headliner member molded or formed from the molding or forming member.

Abstract: A protein-compatible polymer blend made from a water-soluble polymer and a matrix polymer. The glass transition temperature of either the water-soluble polymer or the matrix polymer is greater than the application temperature, i.e., the temperature at which the protein-compatible polymer blend is being used.

Abstract: Polypropylene films having a base layer of a propylene polymer with at least one matte outer layer of a blend of a polyether block polyamide, polypropylene, and polybutene-1, the polybutene-1 representing from 40 to 60 wt. % of the blend. Such films have shown good antistatic properties combined with particularly low heat seal thresholds compared with similar films without the polybutene-1 in the outer layer or layers.

Abstract: A composition and method for promoting improved adhesion between a thermoplastic resinous substrate and polyurethane foam is provided. In one aspect of this invention, the composition comprises a thermoplastic mixture of at least one polyphenylene ether and at least one poly(alkenylaromatic) compound; and at least one primary amine-containing material or secondary amine-containing material.

Abstract: The present invention provides an osmium oxide composition comprising an osmium oxide microencapsulated in an aromatic polyolefin (hereinafter abbreviated as MCOsOx), a method for preparation of MCOsOx, which comprises allowing an osmium oxide to contact with an aromatic polyolefin in an organic solvent, and precipitating MCOsOx, an oxidizing agent comprising MCOsOx, a method for preparing a chiral diol compound, which comprises reacting MCOsOx, a chiral ligand and an olefin compound with each other, and a method for preparing a chiral diol compound, which comprises oxidizing an olefin compound with MCOsOx wherein a chiral ligand further coordinates to an osmium oxide.

Abstract: A composite structure, which generally includes:

Abstract: A multilayer molded article is produced using a composite skin layer made of a skin material and a foam sheet on a core layer of a thermoplastic resin in which a tensile modulus E of the skin material is not larger than 950 kg/cm2, and a tensile modulus E (kg/cm2), a heat shrinkage factor F (%) and a thickness t (cm) of the skin material satisfy the following relationship: 20/(E×t)+F≧2.5, which method produces a large size multilayer molded article having a complicated shape and no wrinkles, breakage or uneven marks in the skin material on the surface of the article.

Abstract: The present invention provides a foamed thermoplastic resin article having light weight and high stiffness suitable for interior members for automobile, as well as having soft feel of a skin layer, which is formed by integrally laminating a skin material and a thermoplastic resin foamed base material while forming the same, wherein the thermoplastic resin foamed base material is composed of a foamed core layer, a skin layer of the skin material side and a skin layer of the backside, and when thickness of the skin layer of the skin material side is defined as A, and thickness of the skin layer of the backside is defined as B, the A and B satisfy the relationship of A<B.

Abstract: The moisture transfer system includes a waterproof/breathable moisture transfer liner having an inner fabric layer selected from technically advanced fabrics which are carefully selected. A series of layers are provided outside the inner liner including foam material layers, breathable membranes, encapsulation technology, waterproof films and an outer fabric layer. The moisture transfer system in incorporated into in-line skate as either a removable liner for a shell boot or a liner for a softboot.

Abstract: Disclosed are protective, flexible mats for absorbing liquids on floors and other surfaces which contain a waterproof component and a polymeric foam sheet formed by polymerizing a high internal phase water-in-oil emulsion. The mats can also contain a non-skid material and/or at least one liquid pervious sheet. The mats are suitable for absorbing hydrophilic and hydrophobic liquids.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an oriented multi-layer film which comprises a voided layer and at least one non-voided layer on at least one surface of the voided layer. In one embodiment, the voided layer comprises a Ziegler-Natta or metallocene-catalyzed substantially isotactic propylene polymer in a polymer matrix with a cavitation initiator. In a second embodiment, the non-voided layer comprises a Ziegler-Natta or metallocene-catalyzed substantially isotactic polypropylene polymer. In a third embodiment, both the voided core layer and at least one non-voided layer comprise a metallocene-catalyzed substantially isotactic polypropylene polymer.