Abstract: The invention concerns a transparent polyamide alloy, produced by compounding it from 30-98% by weight of a transparent, amorphous, rigid and brittle polyamide A with at least 35 mole % cyclo-aliphatic diamine and a glass transition point of at least 150° C., and 2-70% by weight of a transparent, impact resistant polyamide B with at least 40-80 mole % of at least one long-chain polyamide-forming monomer, with more than 10 carbon atoms and at least 10 mole % terephthalic acid and a glass transition point of under 70° C.

Abstract: A packaging film is made from a master-batch on a polyamide base. The preferred polyamide base is copolyamide 6/12. The packaging films made from this master-batch exhibit improved slip properties and anti-blocking properties. The packaging films are particularly suitable for use in automatic packaging machines in order to increase the cycle frequencies in the are of foodstuff packaging.

Abstract: A heat settable, coating system of carboxyl-functional polyester resins, polyfunctional epoxy compounds and/or &bgr;-hydroxy alkyl amides, as well as further customary additives, if required. The coating system contains at least one linear carboxyl-functional polyester resin of up to 10 mol-part of isophthalic acid and at least 90 mol-parts of at least a further dicarboxylic acid from the group of aromatic dicarboxylic acids with 8 to 16 C-atoms, aliphatic dicarboxylic acids with 6 to 22 C-atoms and cycloaliphatic dicarboxylic acids with 8 to 16 C-atoms, and at least 90 mol-parts of at least one branched aliphatic diol with 4 to 12 C-atoms, and up to 50 mol-parts of at least one linear aliphatic diol with 2 to 22 C-atoms and/or at least one cycloaliphatic diol with 6 to 16 C-atoms as the binder resin.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel thermoplastic multi-layer composites comprising at least a) a layer formed from a molding compound based on a polyamide and b) a second layer formed from a molding compound based on a linear alternating polyketone polymer from carbon monoxide and an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon compound, at least part of which layer b) is adjacent to layer a).

Abstract: Colorless, amorphous, transparent copolyamides, their blends or alloys, and molded articles with high alternate bending strengths that can be produced from them. The copolyamides are preferably made of cycloaliphatic diamines combined with aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and small amounts of aromatic dicarboxylic acids. The copolyamides exhibit high strength, high rigidity, high heat distortion, and good solvent resistance.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of polyamide moulding compounds, their alloys or blends, which contain at least one homopolyamide, which has been obtained from long-chained aliphatic monomer blocks with cycloaliphatic monomer blocks, in order to manufacture moulded members for optical or electro-optical applications.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heat-curing coating material consisting of a carboxyl-functional polyester, and an epoxy resin and also at least one additional stabilizer.

Abstract: A device and a method are disclosed, by means of which microfilament yarns made of synthetic polymers can be produced with increased uniformity of the titer, dye absorption and improved physical yarn properties at increased production speeds by means of a spinning process with spinnerets of high hole density and a central cooling unit.

Abstract: A polyamide composition which is flame-retardant, includes several polyamides; and at least one flame-retarding additive which is at least one alkyl phosphonic acid compound having general formula (I):

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer blend composition containing (A) a linear alternating polyketone polymer on the basis of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon compound, (B) at least one polyamide and/or block copolyester amide, (C) optionally customary auxiliaries and additives such as stabilizers, pigments, fillers, plasticizers and impact modifiers, the polyamide and/or the block copolyester amide (B) having a carboxyl/amino end-groups ratio of more than 1.

Abstract: A powder coating is prepared by (a) solvent polymerizing carboxy-functional acrylate copolymers, (b) separating and reacting the copolymers with a molar excess of at least one epihaloalkane, (c) removing excess epihaloalkane, (d) adding toluene and then reacting the copolymers with a sodium hydroxide solution to produce epoxy groups-containing acrylate copolymers having an epoxide number of from 0.018-0.501 eq/100 g copolymer, a weight average molecular weight of from 1000-30,000 and a Tg of from 20-120.degree. C.; and (e) extruding the epoxy groups-containing acrylate copolymers with a hardener such as aliphatic polybasic acids or anhydrides, or carboxy-functional polyesters or acrylic resins along with additives such as pigments or fillers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a corrugated pipe of thermoplastic polymer material for use as fluid line with at least one polymer layer, comprising closed geometric outer contours which are spaced at an interval from each other in the axial direction of the pipe and which define a corrugation on the pipe jacket in at least one radial angular sector in axial, longitudinal direction one behind the other. The closed geometric outer contours are designed in such a manner that two jacket lines of the pipe jacket surface, which lines are approximately opposite one another, are free of corrugations and that these jacket lines extend in the longitudinal direction of the pipe (FIGS. 1b-1d).

Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layer ballistic cable protector in which additional fiber sheathing layers are replaced by hard, impact-resistant or impact-resistance modified plastic sheathing layers and, if desired, by further soft plastic damping layers.

Abstract: A method for the production and use of a catalytically-acting liquid system is offered, which has no or only a small proportion of free lactam, and which is of low viscosity and good storage stability and which directly initiates the anionic lactam polymerization.

Abstract: Colorless, amorphous polyamides, their blends or alloys, and the molded articles with high alternate bending strengths that can be produced from them, are made available; they are preferably made up of cycloaliphatic diamines combined with aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and small amounts of aromatic dicarboxylic acids which show at the same time high strength, high rigidity, high heat distortion, and good solvent resistance.

Abstract: A polyamide composition which is amorphous and transparent, which has reduced flammability, and which has reduced migration of flame-retardant additive so that it is film-free, includes at least one polyamide which contains cycloaliphatic monomer units and which is amorphous and transparent; and a flame-retardant additive which is present in an amount effective to reduced flammability of the polyamide composition, which is dissolved in the at least one polyamide, and which is at least one alkyl phosphonic acid compound having a general formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R' each represent, independent of each other, an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and x=0 or 1. An article molded from this composition is transparent, has reduced flammability, and has reduced migration of flame-retardant additive so that it is film-free.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastically processible molding material with a two-phase matrix of a partially aromatic copolyamide and an aliphatic polyamide or copolyamide containing permanently magnetic or magnetizable fillers, as well as to a method for producing this molding material and using it for producing molded parts.

Abstract: This invention relates to adhesion agents and compatibility agents, respectively, on the basis of partially crystalline, high-molecular block (co)polyester amides, produced by direct esterification of carboxyl-terminated or hydroxycarboxyl-terminated polyamide precondensates and hydroxyl-terminated or hydroxycarboxyl-terminated polyester segments, characterized in that the block (co)polyester amides form two crystalline phases and comprise as segments(A) at least one polyamide or copolyamide block having a uniform number average molar mass of at least 1000 g/mole,(B) at least one aromatic polyester and/or copolyester block having a uniform number average molar mass of at least 1000 g/mole, and(C) at least one further diol component of the general structureHO--R--OH,wherein R is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic or partially aromatic (co)polyesters, aliphatic polyethers, aliphatic (co)polyester amides, polycarbonates or aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons.

Abstract: An uncoated lens, especially for use as the lens of a fog light or a headlight for an automobile, and having particularly good resistance against the environmental effects which are inherent in this environment, is formed of a colorless, transparent copolyamide having a glass transition temperature of at least a 170.degree. C., blended with a homopolyamide, and wherein the copolyamide is formed from at least one cycloaliphatic diamine with two cyclohexane rings, and at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid which is predominantly isophthalic acid. The copolyamide may optionally contain up to 20 mol % of a further polyamide forming monomer of at least one lactam or an omega-aminocarboxylic acid. The homopolyamide is preferably one of PA6, PA11, PA12, PA66, PA69, PA610 or PA612. The cycloaliphatic diamine of the copolyamide is preferably bis(3-methyl-4-aminocyclohexyl)-methane.

Abstract: The invention concerns anti-static, peroxide-stable molding compounds on the basis of polyamides and/or polyesters, whereby the molding compounds are modified with very pure conductive carbon black with a low specific surface area. These anti-static molding compounds can be used for the production of injection-molded or extruded parts and the production of sheets or multi-layer hoses and tubes.