Abstract: Thermoplastic nylons are stabilized with copper compounds and synergistic halides by incorporation of from 0.1 to 10% of a concentrate of nylon, copper bromide or iodide and calcium bromide, zinc bromide or magnesium bromide. The stabilized nylons may be thermoplastically processed to give semimanufactures or films.

Abstract: A flameproofed nylon molding composition which can be processed by thermoplastic methods and which contains, as the flameproofing agent, from 5 to 30% by weight of brominated styrene oligomers and a synergistic metal oxide. The compositions may be used for the manufacture of injection moldings for the electrical industry.

Abstract: A polyester which is manufactured by polycondensing terephthalic acid, or its lower alkyl esters, with butane-1,4-diol and at least 5 mole % of but-2-ene-1,4-diol, based on the amount of diol employed.

Abstract: New thermoplastic polymers based on aromatic polyether-sulfones, which have molecular weights of from about 15,000 to 35,000 and contain units of the formula ##STR1## and a process for their manufacture.

Abstract: Stabilized polyester molding compositions in which the stabilizer is a carbodiimide of the formula ##STR1## where R is hydrogen, alkyl, halogen or nitro, at least one of the substituents R in the ortho-position to the carbodiimide group must differ from hydrogen, and the carbodiimide molecule contains, as substituents R, 2 alkyl groups and 2 nitro groups, or from 4 to 6 chlorine atoms, or 2 alkyl groups and from 4 to 6 chlorine atoms, or 2 chlorine atoms and 2 nitro groups, or 4 chlorine atoms and 2 bromine atoms.

Abstract: An improved process for the continuous manufacture of polyamides by continuously conveying the aqueous solution of a salt of essentially equivalent amounts of a diamine, or of a mixture of several diamines, and of a dicarboxylic acid, or of a mixture of several dicarboxylic acids, or of mixtures of such salts with lactams and/or aminocarboxylic acids, through several reaction zones under polyamide-forming conditions, wherein the mixture of starting materials is heated, in a first reaction zone, to from 200.degree. to 300.degree. C, preferably from 220.degree. to 280.degree. C, at pressures which are above the corresponding saturation vapor pressure of water and prevent the formation of a vapor phase, the pressure action on the polycondensation mixture is released in a second reaction zone and condensation of the mixture, to form high molecular weight polyamides, is then completed in further reaction stages. According to the invention,A.

Abstract: Process for the continuous manufacture of polymeric starting materials for high-grade transparent thin sheeting, whereinA. .epsilon.-caprolactam is continuously agitated in a first reaction zone under polyamide-forming conditions at temperatures of from 240.degree. to 290.degree. C until at least 20% and preferably at least 35% of the .epsilon.-caprolactam has reacted,B. magnesium silicate having a particle size of less than 30 .mu.m is then added to the melt to give magnesium silicate concentrations in the reaction mixture of from 0.0005 to 0.5% and preferably from 0.001 to 0.01%, andC. the melt is then polymerized in further stages to completion until the relative viscosity is from 2.4 to 3.3 and preferably from 2.5 to 2.8.

Abstract: Method of removing odorous formaldehyde from stabilized shaped polyoxymethylenes in which an inert gas is caused to flow over stabilized and shaped solid polyoxymethylenes at elevated temperatures not high enough to cause sticking or fusion of the polyoxymethylene, until substantially all of the volatile formaldehyde has been removed.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of polyamides from .epsilon.-caprolactam and/or other polyamide-forming starting compounds by polymerization and subsequent extraction of the polymer. The extract containing solvent, monomer and oligomers is concentrated in the absence of atmospheric oxygen, the surfaces which come into contact with the extract being made of materials which are inert under the conditions of the concentration process, and the concentrate, without further purification or separation, is polymerized by itself or together with other polyamide-forming starting compounds.

Abstract: A process for continuous production of polyamides by continuous transport of a mixture of one or more lactams and from 1 to 15% and preferably from 3 to 8% of water and optionally other polyamide-forming compounds such as the salts of dicarboxylic acids and diamines or aminocarboxylic acids through a number of reaction zones under polyamide-forming conditions, said mixture of starting materials being heated in a first reaction zone to temperatures of from 210.degree. to 330.degree. C and preferably from 220.degree. to 280.degree. C, whereupon the polycondensation mixture is adiabatically vented in a further reaction zone and is then polymerized to completion in yet another reaction state to form high molecular weight polyamides. The process is characterized in thatA.

Abstract: Thermoplastic polyesters having a melt viscosity of more than 6,000 poise, as measured at 250.degree. C, and a relative solution viscosity of more than 1.6, as measured on a 2:1 mixture of phenol/o-dichlorobenzene at 25.degree. C, composed of aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic diols on the one hand and dicarboxylic acids or esters thereof on the other hand and of from 0.1 to 10% molar of an aliphatic diol containing at least one olefinic double bond and/or of an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid containing at least one olefinic double bond or an ester thereof, said olefinic double bond not being directly adjacent to the carboxyl or ester groups. The polyesters are manufactured by melt polycondensation of diols with dicarboxylic acids or esters thereof, which polycondensation is carried out for at least some of the time at a temperature above 220.degree. C and preferably above 230.degree. C, the reaction being carried out in the presence of from 0.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of polyamide foams by anionic polymerization of lactams, in which from 0.1 to 15% w/w tetrachloroethylene is added to the reaction mixture to be foamed. The resulting foams are very tough, even at low temperatures.

Abstract: A film of poly(hexamethylenediamine adipate) (nylon 6,6) which contains from 0.01 to 2 per cent by weight of an ester of an aliphatic alcohol of 4 to 10 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Thermoplastic polyester molding compositions showing good impact resistance at both high and relatively low temperatures and containingA. 100 parts by weight of a linear saturated polyester of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid and optionally small portions of aliphatic dicarboxylic acids with saturated aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diols andB. from 1 to 25 parts by weight of a rubber-elastic graft copolymer having a glass temperature below -20.degree. C andC. optionally from 10 to 80 parts by weight of fillers.

Abstract: Molding compositions based on polyhexamethylene adipamide and containing phenolic additives and, to obviate discoloration on conditioning, from 0.001 to 0.5% by weight, based on polyhexamethylene adipamide, of a compound having a chain transfer constant for styrene at 100.degree.C of more than 1.5. The preferred chain transfer agent used is n-dodecylmercaptan.