Abstract: Blown films based on a blend of a C2C3 random copolymer and a C2-based plastomer, which combine low scaling initiation temperature (SIT), good optical properties and an improved stiffness/impact balance, and which also show an excellent sterilization behaviour.

Abstract: High quality melt-blown webs having improved barrier properties (3rd drop, cm H2O resp. mbar) and a widened process window. The melt-blown webs show a specific chain structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polypropylene based composition comprising: (A) from 40.0 to 85.0 wt % of a heterophasic propylene copolymer having a content of xylene cold soluble (XCS) fraction in the range of 15 wt % to 35 wt %, based on the total weight of the heterophasic propylene copolymer; (B) from 5.0 to 15.0 wt % of a terpolymer of propylene with ethylene and 1-butene comonomer units having a melting temperature Tm as measured in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of less than 140° C.; (C) from 5.0 to 25.0 wt % of an ethylene copolymer with alpha-olefin comonomer units having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms with a density of from 850 kg/m3 to 900 kg/m3; and (D) from 5.0 to 25.0 wt % of an inorganic filler, wherein the amounts of components (A), (B), (C), and (D) are all based on the total weight amount of the polypropylene based composition, said polypropylene based composition having a melt flow rate (MFR2) as measured at 230° C. and 2.16 kg load in accordance with ISO 1133 in the range of 2.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a polypropylene composition (C) comprising a heterophasic propylene copolymer (RAHECO) and a plastomer (PL) as well as a process for the preparation of said polypropylene composition and a film obtained from said polypropylene composition (C).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a propylene polymer composition comprising a long chain branched propylene polymer, wherein said propylene polymer composition has a) a crystallization temperature Tc of less than 115° C., b) a melting temperature Tm of less than 155° C. c) a F30 melt strength of from 5.0 to less than 30.0 cN, and d) a V30 melting extensibility of more than 190 mm/s, a process for producing said propylene polymer composition by reactive modification of a propylene polymer in the presence of a peroxide, an article comprising said propylene polymer composition, the use of said propylene polymer composition for producing an article.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heterophasic polypropylene composition with good response to nucleating agents, increased crystallisation temperature, good mechanical properties The present invention further relates to articles made thereof, and the use of the heterophasic polypropylene composition for specific applications and producing these.

Abstract: A polypropylene composition (C) obtainable by blending: a) 50.0 to 95.0 wt.-% of a heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO) defined by its crystalline fraction content (78.0 to 92.0 wt.-%), soluble fraction content (8.0 to 22.0 wt.-%), C2 content of said soluble fraction (15.0 to 30.0 wt.-%) and intrinsic viscosity of the soluble fraction (1.80 to 3.50 dl/g), b) 5.0 to 50.0 wt.-% of a blend (A) comprising polypropylene and polyethylene in a weight ratio of from 9:1 to 13:7, wherein blend (A) is a recycled material recovered from a waste plastic material derived from post-consumer and/or post-industrial waste; wherein the polypropylene composition (C) has a melt flow rate (MFR2) of 20.0 to 70.0 g/10 min.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for decolorizing a polyolefin composition, the process comprising the steps of a) providing a polyolefin composition comprising at least one polyolefin and at least one organic chromophore, b) mixing the polyolefin composition in a melt state at a temperature of 170 to 290° C. with an inorganic oxidizing agent, wherein the inorganic oxidizing agent is selected from the group of inorganic peroxides and hypochlorites, and c) obtaining a decolorized polyolefin composition.

Abstract: Blown films, especially monolayer blown films, of high stiffness, the blown films comprising at least 95.0 wt % of a specific propylene-1-butene random copolymer.

Abstract: Melt-blown fiber comprising two polypropylenes which differ in their molecular weight.

Abstract: The present application relates to a polypropylene composition having a melt flow rate MFR.2 (230° C.) measured according to ISO 1133 in the range of 5 to 50 g/10 min, to a composition comprising the polypropylene composition and one or more additive(s) in an amount of up to 4 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the composition, to a process for the preparation of the polypropylene composition and an article comprising the polypropylene composition as well as the use of the polypropylene composition for decreasing the brittle-to-ductile transition temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to melt-blown webs having no shots and improved barrier properties, whereby the melt-blown webs are made of a visbroken metallocene-catalyzed propylene homopolymer composition with specified melting temperature Tm, content of 2,1 erythro regiodefects and molecular weight distribution (MWD).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer film comprising at least two outer layers (A) and (C) and at least one core layer (B), at least one of the outer layers (A) and/or (C) comprises component a1), whereas the other outer layer comprises component a1) or a2), whereby component a1) is a terpolymer of propylene, ethylene and one C4 to C10 ?-olefin; whereby said terpolymer a1) has an ethylene content in the range of 0.1 to 8.0 wt.-% based on the total weight of the terpolymer a1); a C4 to C10 ?-olefin content in the range of 0.1 to 16.0 wt.-% based on the total weight of the terpolymer a1); and a melt flow rate MFR2 measured according to ISO 1133 (230° C., 2.16 kg load) in the range of 0.5 to 12.0 g/10 min; component a2) is a polypropylene having a melting temperature of at least 150° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to filtration media made from melt-blown fibers having improved barrier properties. The melt-blown fibers in the filtration media of the invention are made of a visbroken metallocene-catalyzed propylene homopolymer composition with specified melting temperature Tm and molecular weight distribution (MWD).

Abstract: A heterophasic copolymer composition obtained by a process comprising polymerising in multiple steps and multiple polymerisation reactors propylene monomer and a comonomer selected from ethylene, alpha-olefins having 4 to 10 carbon atoms and their mixtures, in the presence of an olefin polymerisation catalyst comprising a solid catalyst component and a co-catalyst, wherein the solid catalyst component comprises titanium, magnesium, halogen and an internal donor of the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different being a linear or branched C1-C12-alkyl group and R is hydrogen or a linear, branched or cyclic C1 to C12-alkyl.

Abstract: A heterophasic polypropylene copolymer having an MFR2 of 0.05 to 20 g/10 min (ISO 1133 at 230° C. with a loading of 2.16 kg) and a melting point (Tm) of 156 to 164° C. (measured by DSC according to ISO 11357) wherein the heterophasic polypropylene copolymer comprises at least the following components: (A) 55.0 to 95.0 wt % of a crystalline fraction (CF) having a comonomer content of 0 to 3.0 wt %; and (B) 5.0 to 45.0 wt % of a soluble fraction (SF) having a comonomer content of 12 to 45 wt %; wherein the intrinsic viscosity (IV) (in decalin at 135° C.) of the soluble fraction (SF) is 2.5 to 11 dl/g, and wherein the amount of crystalline fraction (CF) and the amount of soluble fraction (SF) are determined in 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene at 40° C.

Abstract: A polypropylene composition (C) comprising: i) from 55.0 to 95.0 wt.-% of a heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO), ii) from 5.0 to 45.0 wt. -% of a copolymer (CP), preferably a random copolymer, of propylene and at least one comonomer selected from the group of C4-C10 alpha-olefins that has been synthesized in the presence of a single-site catalyst, wherein the polypropylene composition (C) has a melt flow rate MFR2 of from 1.0 to 30.0 g/10 min, and wherein the polypropylene composition (C) has a Charpy Notched Impact Strength NIS of greater than or equal to 16.0 kJ/m2.

Abstract: A heterophasic propylene ethylene copolymer composition having an MFR2 in the range from 1.0 to 55.0 g/10 min and a melting temperature in the range from 155 to 162° C., comprising: i) from 60 to 88 wt.-% of a xylene cold insoluble fraction (XCI) having an intrinsic viscosity iV(XCI) in the range from 1.40 to 2.50 dl/g, an isotactic pentad concentration [mmmm] of more than 97.0% and a content of 2,1-regiodefects in the range from 0.1 to 0.4 mol %, ii) from 12 to 40 wt.-% of a xylene cold soluble fraction (XCS) having an intrinsic viscosity iV(XCS) in the range from 1.80 to 3.20 dl/g and an ethylene content C2(XCS) in the range from 25 to 80 wt.-%, wherein the ratio of the intrinsic viscosities of the two fractions, iV(XCS)/iV(XCI), is in the range from 1.0 to 2.0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to heterophasic polypropylene compositions comprising a propylene homo- or copolymer forming a crystalline fraction as a matrix and an amorphous propylene ethylene elastomer as a soluble fraction dispersed in said matrix. The heterophasic polypropylene compositions further comprise an elastomeric ethylene/alpha-olefin random copolymer. The heterophasic polypropylene compositions have a well-balanced relation between stiffness and impact strength, low volatile and semi-volatile emissions and good processability.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a polyethylene-polypropylene composition comprising a blend (A) being a recycled material, said blend comprising polypropylene and polyethylene, and a compatibilizer (B) being a copolymer of 1-butene and ethylene. Further, the present invention is directed to an article comprising said polyethylene-polypropylene composition and a process for preparing said polyethylene-polypropylene composition. The present invention is also directed to the use of a compatibilizer (B) being a copolymer of 1-butene and ethylene for improving the impact-stiffness balance and the morphology of the blend (A).