Abstract: A cold-stretchable, self-adhesive film composition comprising (a) from 88 to 97% by weight of an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer, the .alpha.-olefin having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms and the copolymer having a density of between 0.905 and 0.940 g/cm.sup.3 and a melt index of between 0.1 and 2 dg/minutes and; (b) from 3 to 12% by weight of a polymer selected from among polyisobutylene, atactic polypropylene, cis-polybutadiene and bromobutyl rubber. The film compositions find particular use in the automation of the spiral wrap-round packaging technique.

Abstract: An embossed ethylene-propylene copolymer film having a thickness of less than or equal to 24 microns. A method and apparatus for making the film by blow-extruding the ethylene-propylene copolymer into a tubular web, pinching the tubular web between pinch rolls, and embossing the pinched web by passing it between an embossing roll and a pressure roll.

Abstract: A method of mulching comprising mulching plants or soil with antistatic films of a synthetic polymer obtained by the method consisting essentially of continuously printing over at least part of the surface of at least one side of the film of synthetic polymer with aluminum powder by suspending in solvent a composition consisting essentially of aluminum powder and a polyamide resin, setting the suspension down onto the film, and permitting the solvent to evaporate. The films obtained have a surface resistivity of less than 10.sup.10 ohms/cm. The mulching of plants with these films prevents virus degeneration of the plants by virus-carrying aphides, and the mulching of the soil limits the increase of soil temperature in warm environments.

Abstract: A method for producing an antistatic film of a synthetic polymer consisting essentially of continuously printing over at least part of the surface of at least one side of the film with aluminum powder by suspending in solvent a composition consisting essentially of aluminum powder and a polyamide resin, setting the suspension down onto the film, and permitting the solvent to evaporate The films obtained have a surface resistivity of less than 10.sup.10 ohms/cm and are useful, in addition to conventional uses such as packaging, for preventing virus degeneration of plants by virus-carrying aphides by mulching the plants with the films, limiting the increase in soil temperature in warm environments by mulching the soil with the films, and reducing the calorific energy necessary to heat greenhouses with the films.