Abstract: A method for producing a polypropylene-based resin foamed molded article by blow molding a foamed parison formed of a base resin, in which: the base resin contains, in specific mixing proportions, a branched polypropylene-based resin (A), a linear polypropylene-based resin (B) and a recovered raw material (C) that is recovered in the course of production of the polypropylene-based resin foamed molded article. Each of the resin (A), resin (B) and the recovered raw material (C), has a specific range of a melt tension and a melt flow rate. A difference in melting point between the resin (A) and resin (B) is within a specific range. A difference in crystallization temperature between the resin (A) and resin (B) is within a specific range.

Abstract: A method for producing a molded article of expanded beads includes filling tubular polypropylene-based resin expanded beads each having a through-hole in a mold, and supplying a heating medium to fusion-bond the expanded beads to each other. The expanded beads have a foamed layer constituted by polypropylene-based resin. A closed cell of the expanded beads is 90% or more. An average hole diameter (d) of through-holes of the expanded beads is less than 1 mm. A ratio [d/D] of the average hole diameter (d) to an average outer diameter (D) of the expanded beads is 0.4 or less. An open cell content of the molded article of expanded beads is 2.5% or more and 12% or less.

Abstract: Expanded beads are those including a mixture of an olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer and a polyethylene-based resin, wherein a melt flow rate MFR(I) of the olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer is 2-10 g/10 min; a difference ((MFR(II))?(MFR(I))) between a melt flow rate MFR(II) of the polyethylene-based resin and the melt flow rate MFR(I) of the olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer is 1-35 g/10 min; and a content of the polyethylene-based resin in the mixture is 3-40% by weight.

Abstract: A core member used for a laminate in which polyurethane foam is laminated on the core member made of a thermoplastic resin expanded beads molded article, such that the molded article in which expanded beads having through holes are mutually fused, an average porosity of the expanded beads molded article is between 10% and 25%, and on a surface of the expanded beads molded article, a ratio of a total opening area of the through hole portions of the expanded beads to a surface area of the expanded beads molded article is between 2% and 5%, an average opening area of the through hole portions of the expanded beads is between 5 mm2 and 20 mm2, and the ratio of the number of through hole portions having an opening area of 2 mm2 or more to the number of through hole portions of the expanded beads is 60% or less.

Abstract: A molded article of polypropylene-based resin expanded beads, obtained by in-mold molding of the polypropylene-based resin expanded beads, each bead including: a core layer, in a foamed state, having a polypropylene-based resin; and a covering layer, which covers the core layer, having a polyethylene-based resin. A molded article magnification X [times] of the molded article is 55 times to 90 times, a value of a product X·?50 of a 50% compressive stress ?50 [kPa] and the molded article magnification X is 6500 or more, and a 5% compressive stress ?5 of the expanded beads molded article is 5 kPa to 25 kPa.

Abstract: A polyethylene-based resin multilayer foam sheet may include a polyethylene-based resin foam layer containing a polyethylene-based resin (A) as a base resin, and a conductive layer laminated on at least one side of the foam layer. The conductive layer contains: a mixed resin of one or more polyethylenes (B) of low-density polyethylenes and/or linear low-density polyethylenes and an ethylene-based copolymer (C) having a structural unit derived from ethylene and a structural unit derived from a monomer having a polar group; and conductive carbon. The conductive carbon blended in the conductive layer may be in a range of from 3 to 15 wt. %. The difference, TmB?TmC, between the melting point TmB of the polyethylene (B) and the melting point TmC of the ethylene-based copolymer (C) each contained in the conductive layer may be in a range of from 30 to 80° C.

Abstract: A cushion body for sitting is provided which can offer good feeling of sitting even to many unspecified users of various body shapes and allow them to be seated more comfortably. A cushion body for sitting (1) includes: a base part (2) having a sitting surface (S1) formed of a curved surface that is curved concavely to support, from below, the buttocks of a seated person in a seated posture; and a pair of side supporting portions (3) each having a side supporting surface (S2) formed of a curved surface that is curved continuously from the sitting surface (S1) of the base part (2), where the pair of side supporting portions (3) project from sides of the base part (2) such that the side supporting portions (3) can be bent and deformed by a load applied to the side supporting surfaces (S2), so as to support both the left and right parts of the buttocks of the seated person in the seated posture.

Abstract: An expanded bead of polypropylene-based resin formed with a through hole that is defined by an inner peripheral surface and that has an average hole diameter of 1 mm or less. The expanded bead has a closed cell content of 85% or more, an average cell diameter of 50 to 300 ?m and an inner surface portion that extends along the inner peripheral surface that has an average cell diameter of 5 to 150 ?m which is smaller than the average cell diameter of the expanded bead.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin expanded bead and a molded article composed of the thermoplastic resin expanded beads are provided. The expanded bead includes a foam layer containing a thermoplastic resin. The expanded bead has a columnar shape, and has two or more and eight or less through-holes penetrating in the axial direction thereof. A ratio Ct/A of a total cross-sectional area Ct of the through-holes to a cross-sectional area A of the expanded bead in a cut surface obtained by cutting the expanded bead along a plane perpendicular to the axial direction at the center in the axial direction is 0.02 or more and 0.15 or less.

Abstract: A method for producing polyamide-based resin multi-stage expanded beads includes an internal pressure applying step of placing polyamide-based resin expanded beads in a pressure-resistant container, impregnating the polyamide-based resin expanded beads with a physical blowing agent in the pressure-resistant container to apply internal pressure higher than atmospheric pressure; and a heating and foaming step of heating and expanding the polyamide-based resin expanded beads to which internal pressure is applied obtained in the internal pressure applying step to obtain polyamide-based resin multi-stage expanded beads having apparent density lower than that of polyamide-based resin expanded beads used in the internal pressure applying step, in the internal pressure applying step, polyamide-based resin expanded beads in a wet state having a water content of 1% or more being impregnated with the physical blowing agent at a temperature higher than change-point temperature of storage modulus of the polyamide-based re

Abstract: A polyolefin-based resin expanded bead contains a base resin containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component, carbon black, and a flame-retardant. A bulk density of the polyolefin-based resin expanded beads is 10 to 100 kg/m3. A blending amount of the carbon black is 0.5 to 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the base resin. The flame-retardant contains a hindered amine-based compound represented by the following general formula (I), and a blending amount of the hindered amine-based compound is 0.01 to 1 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the base resin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a cushion for shoe sole, and a method of producing expanded beads provided with through-holes and composed of a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer block, and with respect to the in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a voidage of the expanded beads molded article is 5 to 40%; a density of the expanded beads molded article is 30 to 150 g/L; and a flexural modulus of the olefin thermoplastic elastomer that constitutes the expanded beads molded article is 10 to 100 MPa.

Abstract: An expanded bead having a through hole and including a foamed core layer which defines the through hole therein and which is constituted of a resin composition containing two kinds of polypropylene-based resins having different melting points, and a cover layer covering the foamed core layer and constituted of a polyolefin-based resin. The expanded bead gives a DSC curve in which an endothermic peak intrinsic to the resin composition and another endothermic peak on a higher temperature side thereof appear in a specific heat of fusion ratio. Molded articles include a multiplicity of the expanded beads.

Abstract: A molded article of polyolefin-based resin expanded beads having excellent appearance and further suppressed color unevenness is provided. Polyolefin-based resin expanded beads obtained by expanding polyolefin-based resin particles including one or two or more metal borates selected from zinc borate and magnesium borate, wherein the particles of the metal borate has an arithmetic average particle diameter based on the number of 1 ?m or more, and a number rate of the particles of the metal borate having a particle diameter of 5 ?m or more is 20% or less.

Abstract: Provided are composite particles in which reinforcing fibers adhere to the surface of thermoplastic resin expanded beads via a thermosetting resin being in an uncured state, a cured product of the composite particles, an in-mold molded article of the composite particles, a laminate of the composite particles and a reinforcing fiber sheet material, a composite of the composite particles, and a method for producing composite particles.

Abstract: A vehicle seat core material includes a molded article that includes thermoplastic resin expanded beads. The molded article has a substantially rectangular shape in a top view, and has a front side and a rear side opposite the front side. The molded article has an average density (Z) of 20 kg/m3 to 50 kg/m3. The molded article includes, on the rear side of the molded article, a rear thin portion having a thickness of 10 mm to 40 mm, the thickness of the rear thin portion being smaller than an average thickness of the molded article. A ratio (Y/Z) of a density (Y) of the rear thin portion to the average density (Z) of the molded article is 1.05 to 3. The rear thin portion of the molded article has a fusion rate of 70% or more.

Abstract: A crosslinked olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer expanded bead including a base polymer having an olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer and a brominated bisphenol-based flame retardant having a chemical structure represented by formula (1). A difference TmTPO-TFR is ?5° C. to 40° C., where TmTPO is a melting point of the olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer and TFR is the lower of a glass transition temperature TgFR and a melting point TmFR of the brominated bisphenol-based flame retardant. A xylene insoluble content is 5 mass % to 80 mass %.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an expanded beads molded article containing a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer block and having a density of 30 kg/m3 or more and less than 150 kg/m3 and a modulus of repulsion elasticity of 60% or more. The sole member of the present invention includes the expanded beads molded article of the present invention.

Abstract: A laminated foam sheet having a polyethylene resin foam layer and an antistatic polyethylene layer laminated on one or both sides thereof is produced by coextruding melts for respective layers, wherein the melt for the antistatic layer contains a polyethylene resin, an ionomer resin antistatic agent and a specific amount of volatile plasticizer blend containing an alcohol and a saturated hydrocarbon or a dialkyl ether. The antistatic layer of the obtained laminated foam sheet has specific morphology.

Abstract: A molded article of polypropylene-based resin expanded beads, obtained by in-mold molding of the polypropylene-based resin expanded beads, each bead including: a core layer, in a foamed state, having a polypropylene-based resin; and a covering layer, which covers the core layer, having a polyethylene-based resin. A molded article magnification X [times] of the molded article is 55 times to 90 times, a value of a product X·?50 of a 50% compressive stress ?50 [kPa] and the molded article magnification X is 6500 or more, and a 5% compressive stress ?5 of the expanded beads molded article is 5 kPa to 25 kPa.