Abstract: Process for producing expanded polyolefin resin particles with use as a foaming agent in water contained in an aqueous dispersion medium. The process includes dispersing polyolefin resin particles with use as a foaming agent of water contained in an aqueous dispersion medium. The process includes dispersing polyolefin resin particles together with the aqueous dispersion medium into a closed vessel, heating the polyolefin resin particles up to or above a softening temperature of the polyolefin resin particles and pressurizing the polyolefin resin particles, and releasing the polyolefin resin particles into a zone whose pressure is lower than an internal pressure of the closed vessel. The polyolefin resin particles are composed of a polyolefin resin composition including a polyolefin resin, polyethylene glycol homopolymer and a foam nucleating agent.

Abstract: Provided are polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles including, as base resin, polypropylene resin that satisfies the following requirements (a) through (c): (a) in cross fractionation chromatography, an amount of components eluted at a temperature of not more than 40° C. is not more than 2.0% by weight; (b) a melting point is not less than 100° C. but not more than 160° C.; and (c) propylene monomer units are present in an amount of not less than 90 mol % but not more than 100 mol %, and olefin units each having a carbon number of 2 or 4 or more are present in an amount of not less than 0 mol % but not more than 10 mol %. The polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles can be molded by in-mold foaming molding at a not high molding heating steam pressure, and a polypropylene resin in-mold foaming molded product excellent in dimensional stability at high temperatures can be prepared from the polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles.

Abstract: Provided is a process for producing expanded polyolefin resin particles whose cells are not made nonuniform or extremely smaller as seen in conventional expanded particles, whose cell diameter and expansion ratio can be easily controlled independently, and which, when subjected to in-mold expansion molding, give in-mold expanded molded products satisfactory in fusibility and excellent in surface properties.

Abstract: Provided are polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles including, as base resin, polypropylene resin that satisfies the following requirements (a) through (c): (a) in cross fractionation chromatography, an amount of components eluted at a temperature of not more than 40° C. is not more than 2.0% by weight; (b) a melting point is not less than 100° C. but not more than 160° C.; and (c) propylene monomer units are present in an amount of not less than 90 mol % but not more than 100 mol %, and olefin units each having a carbon number of 2 or 4 or more are present in an amount of not less than 0 mol % but not more than 10 mol %. The polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles can be molded by in-mold foaming molding at a not high molding heating steam pressure, and a polypropylene resin in-mold foaming molded product excellent in dimensional stability at high temperatures can be prepared from the polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles.

Abstract: Provided is a process for producing expanded polyolefin resin particles whose cells are not made nonuniform or extremely smaller as seen in conventional expanded particles, whose cell diameter and expansion ratio can be easily controlled independently, and which, when subjected to in-mold expansion molding, give in-mold expanded molded products satisfactory in fusibility and excellent in surface properties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer which is obtainable by polymerizing 0.

Abstract: There is provided a novel flame-retardant resin composition capable of expressing extremely high flame retardancy without a flame retardant containing a halogen atom, a phosphorus atom, a nitrogen atom, or the like. The present invention provides a composition including a thermoplastic resin mixture of an aromatic polycarbonate or the like (A) and an aromatic vinyl resin or the like (B); a silicone compound (C); and a specific metal silicate compound (D), the silicone compound (C) being represented by average chemical formula (1): R1mR2nSio(4?m?m)/2 ??(1) (wherein R1 represents a methyl group or the like; R2 represents a phenyl group or the like; and 1.1?m+n?1.7 and 0.4?n/m?2.5).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel flame-retardant resin composition capable of exhibiting high flame retardancy without incorporation of flame retardants containing halogen atoms, phosphorus atoms, nitrogen atoms, and the like. A flame-retardant resin composition of the present invention includes a resin component composed of a polyphenylene ether resin (A) and an aromatic vinyl resin (B); a silicone compound (C) represented by the average compositional formula (1) below; and a metal silicate compound (D) having a pH of 8.0 or more and a volume-average particle size of 1 nm to 100 ?m: R1mR2nSiO(4-m-n)/2 (1) (wherein R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group; R2 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group; and m and n each represent a number satisfying the relationships: 1.1?m+n?1.7 and 0.4?n/m?2.5).

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition, which comprises: 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (A), 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer (B) obtained by polymerizing, in at least one stage, a monomer (B-3) comprising a polyfunctional monomer (B-2) containing at least two polymerizable unsaturated bonds within the molecule thereof, and/or a vinyl monomer (B-4) in the presence of polyorganosiloxane particles (B-1), 0.0005 to 5 parts by weight of at least one metal salt (C) selected from the group consisting of alkali metal salts and bivalent or further polyvalent metal salts, and 0.05 to 2 parts by weight of a fluororesin (D).

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer composition, which is a useful flame-retardant additive for a thermoplastic resin, comprising polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer (A) prepared by polymerizing 5 to 60 parts by weight of vinyl monomer (a-2) in the presence of 40 to 95 parts by weight of polyorganosiloxane particles (a-1) (the sum of (a-1) and (a-2) is 100 parts by weight); and an antioxidant (B).

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer which is obtainable by polymerizing 0.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition, which comprises:

Abstract: This invention provides a flame retardant which is inexpensive, has a high level flame retardant effect and is substantially free of such atoms as halogen, phosphorus and nitrogen. A flame retardant which comprises a polymer comprising silicon, boron and oxygen, having a skeleton substantially formed by a silicon-oxygen bond and a boron-oxygen bond and having an aromatic ring within the molecule. A flame retardant resin composition which contains 100 parts by weight of a resin and 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of the above flame retardant.

Abstract: The present invention thus provides a process for producing (D) a chlorinated hydrocarbon compound of the general formula (2): CnR1mHk(CR2R3Cl)j  (2) [wherein n is an integer of 1 to 12, m and k each independently is an integer of 0 to 25, j is an integer of 1 to 10; R1 represents an atom selected from the group consisting of chlorine, bromine, iodine, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus and, when m is 2 or more, the two or more R1 groups may be the same or different, the group CnR1mHk having a valence of j does not contain any tertiary carbon-hydrogen bond; and R2 and R3 each independently represents a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms or a group derived therefrom by substitution of a halogen atom or atoms for some hydrogen atom or atoms thereof and not containing a tertiary carbon-hydrogen bond],which process comprises adding (C) a protic acid to a mixture of (A) a compound of the general formula: CnR1mHk(CHR2R3)j  (1) [wherein m