Abstract: The invention concerns a homogenous, in particular multicolored plastic sheet or panel, based on ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) as binder with a filler content of 30 to 80 wt. % and a process for producing it. In other embodiments the binder contains, in addition to the 70 to 85 wt. % of EVA, polypropylenes to improve the processability (tendency to adhere), EPDM to improve the flexibility, and polyethylenes to reduce the tendency to soiling. In the process described, several additives, each consisting of a binder containing at least some ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, up to 80 wt. % of fillers and up to 5 wt. % of pigments, are mixed, plasticized and granulated or comminuted to form granules or chips of assorted colours which are mixed and, possibly after other processing operations, pressed to form the plastic web or plates.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing nonwoven materials such as floor or wall coverings from natural or synthetic oils and natural or synthetic elastomers is carried out in two reaction phases. In the first reaction phase, a mixture of a stand oil or an equivalent synthetic polymer oil is homogenized with fillers and partially polymerized and partially crosslinked at high temperature to form an intermediate product I. The ground intermediate product I is then homogenized with a natural or synthetic elastomer, in particular natural rubber, fillers and a peroxide and crosslinked and polymerized at a high temperature. The process is suitable for manufacturing homogeneous and possibly marbled floor coverings based on natural materials and processing outstanding physical and optical properties.

Abstract: A composition for the production of an open-pore foam product from essentially inorganic components contains, in addition to known components, a rock-forming solid substance, a curing agent, a foaming additive, and an at least partly alkali-soluble protein to produce open pores. The rock-forming component is a reactive solid substance selected from the group consisting ofI finely dispersed oxide mixture containing amorphous silicon dioxide and aluminium oxide,II vitreous, amorphous electrofilter ash,III milled calcined bauxite,IV electrofilter ash from a brown coal power station,V undissolved amorphous silicon dioxide from an amorphous disperse powder-like, dehydrated or water-containing silicic acid or from high temperature processes (silica fume),VI metakaolin, andVII cement.The curing agent is an alkali metal silicate solution containing 1.2 to 2.5 mols of silicon dixoide per mol of potassium oxide and/or sodium oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a casting resin based on acrylic acid esters having a high content of finely dispersed fillers and containing a mixture of organosilicon compounds having functional groups and metallic acid esters of metals of Groups IVB and VB of the Periodic Table of the Elements. The functional group of the organosilicon compound is ethylenically unsaturated and bound to the silicon atom either directly or through alkylene groups. The addition of this mixture to the casing resins produces a desirable reduction of the viscosity of these resins, which are used, for example, for the manufacture of sanitary articles.The filler content is at least 20% and can be as high as 95% with the proviso that when the filler content is in excess of 80 wt. -%, the filler contains 10 to 30 wt. -%, based on the total weight of filler, of fines having a particle size less than 0.1 mm and the remainder of the filler being coarse up to 4 mm.

Abstract: A foldable foam mat has a longitudinal fold line extending over the entire length of the foam mat and a plurality of transverse fold lines which are arranged in pairs and extend, perpendicular to the longitudinal fold line, over half of the mat toward the edges of the mat. One of each of the transverse fold lines, which are arranged in pairs, is configured as a single fold line, and one as a double fold line. Preferably, the fold lines have an asymmetric configuration, referring to the cross section of the foam mat.

Abstract: The present invention is in the preparation of methacrylic or acryloxyalkylalkoxysilanes by the reaction at a temperature of from 80.degree. and 130.degree. C. of an alkali (meth) acrylate with a halogen alkylalkoxysilane in the presence of a quaternary ammonium salt which has long-chin alkyl moieties, in which the sum of all carbon atoms is between 10 and 40 as a phase-transfer catalyst. In the new procedure no solvents need to be used. The yields are better than 95%.

Abstract: Novel alkoxy titanium(IV)-chelates are used to modify printing inks based on nitrocellulose or other cellulose ester derivatives. The novel chelates comprise citric acid alkyl esters as chelate formers. They delay, as other titanium chelates do, the well-known catalytic effect of the titanium component in cross-linking reactions. When used in printing inks, the novel titanium chelates and their alcoholic solutions have the advantage that they have an insignificant color of their own, so that they practically do not discolor the printing inks. A further advantage of the novel chelates resides in that they do not enter into alteration effects with antioxidants based on phenol, so that they can also be used for printing inks which are to be applied to polymeric substrates containing such antioxidants without the occurence of discoloration.

Abstract: A process for the production of homogeneous flat articles of thermoplastic synthetic resins wherein a starting mixture based on thermoplastic synthetic resins is processed into agglomerate or granulated material by a thermal pretreatment above the softening temperature and subsequently, optionally after additional intermediate steps, is mechanically comminuted to a mixture of particles having a random grain size distribution. The mixture of particles is piled continuously onto a conveyor belt to form a uniform layer and is sintered, under the action of heat up to the plasticization of the thermoplastic synthetic resin, into a coherent flat articles and is then press-molded under the effect of pressure and heat.

Abstract: Titanium chelates with 1 to 2 acetoacetic acid ester ligands and one to two alkoxy groups per titanium atom the sum of these ligands and the alkoxy groups being three as well as Ti-O-Ti bridge between two titanium atoms are formed by release of alcohol and condensation of mono- or bis-acetoacetic acid ester-Ti-(IV)-chelates which have up to 4 alkoxy groups per titanium atom.

Abstract: Titanium chelate - based compositions are used as additives for liquid or pasty coating agents, especially printing inks; they consist of a mixture of titanium chelates of saturated diols and titanium acylates of saturated monocarboxylic acids.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the production of benzene carboxylic acids and benzene carboxylic acid esters or their mixtures, while p-toloylic acid is made from p-xylene and terephthalic acid monomethyl ester is simultaneously prepared from p-toluylic acid ester. The oxidation is performed by the addition of oxidator liquid and gases containing oxygen in single orifice mixing nozzles with the formation of a highly disperse reaction phase and the single orifice mixing nozzles open into the oxidator liquid.

Abstract: Disclosed are very pure zirconium and hafnium orthoesters and a method for their preparation. In this method the reaction between the halides of these metals and the alcohols is performed in the presence of hydrocarbons or chlorinated hydrocarbons, and the alcohol is not use in excess. The obtained orthoesters are in very pure form and not as addition products with alcohol. They can be isolated as solids.

Abstract: A multilayer composite sheet, especially for use as a padding layer underneath artificial grass, or turf includes a bottom layer of expanded synthetic resin, particularly of closed-cell polyethylene foam, and a metallic foil flatly bonded to the foam material. The multilayer composite sheet exhibits low weight per unit area, low water absorption, and low thermal linear expansion suitable for exposure to ambient weather conditions especially sunlight.

Abstract: In a method of preparing cyanoalkyl-akoxysilanes, which is suitable for the production of these silanes on a large technical scale, the reaction of a chloroalkyl-alkoxysilane with an alkali metal cyanide in the presence of a solvent takes place in a stirring reactor which is provided with means for loading these starting materials and with an outlet opening for the alkali metal chloride by-product, and which is connected through a bypass valve to a column with a superimposed condenser. After the reaction in the reactor has ended, first the solvent is distilled out through the column and then the main part of the cyanosilane, and then the rest of the cyanosilane is distilled out while bypassing the column. The alkali metal chloride is then removed from the reactor through a lock.

Abstract: Disclosed is a new method for the preparation of metallic acid esters of titanium, zirconium or hafnium wherein a halide of the metal reacts with an organosilane ester, resulting in the formation of partial esters of the metallic acids. The degree of esterification of the metallic acid ester can be controlled based on the organosilane ester and it is possible to obtain complete esterification of the metal halides. The metallic acid partial esters prepared by the method are very pure, and can be separated selectively from the mixture in a simple manner. The metallic acid alkyl esters obtained can very easily be further esterified to the metallic acid tetraalkyl esters with the formation of very pure tetraalkyl esters.

Abstract: A method for the cleavage of organosiloxanes with chlorosilanes in the presence of ferric chloride and hydrogen chloride as catalysts resulting in chloroalkyl silanes or chloroaryl silanes, and organosiloxanes, which are characterized by one or more --O--Si--R.sub.3 groups, (R.dbd.alkyl or aryl), which are directly bound to a silicon atom which in turn is bound either to the same grouping or to an alkyl or aryl moiety.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sealing composition for soil barriers. The composition is formed of 50 to 95% of a solids mixture of clay minerals and fillers, the clay mineral being 5 to 90% of the solids mixture; a binding agent which is a mixture of an aqueous solution of alkali water glass with a silane of the formula R--Si(OR'.sub.3) in which R is an aliphatic moiety of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, which may be substituted with reactive groups, and R' represents identical or different alkyl moieties of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and water.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for the preparation of 1,2-dichloroethane in a reactor by the reaction of gaseous ethylene with chlorine dissolved in a hot, catalyst-containing, liquid circulating stream that is under elevated pressure and consists of chlorinated hydrocarbons. All of the chlorine is absorbed outside of the reactor, at a temperature above 90.degree. C., a pressure of more than 4 bar, and an average residence time of less than 120 seconds. The reaction takes place at the phase boundary surface of a dispersion produced from gaseous ethylene and the chlorine-containing, liquid, circulating stream, at an energy dissipation density of 0.05 to 1000 kilowatts per cubic meter, a temperature of 90.degree. to 200.degree. C., and a pressure of 7 to 20 bar. Iron(III) chloride is used preferably as catalyst. Oxygen is used preferably as inhibitor for preventing the formation of byproducts.