Abstract: A method for producing a resin composition is provided. The method includes melting and kneading a thermoplastic resin having a transition temperature of less than 200° C. and a powder with a twin-screw kneading extruder. The powder is an inorganic filler having an apparent density of 0.1 to 1.5 g/ml. The resin is supplied from a supply port to the extruder, and the powder is supplied from a gravimetric feeder to the extruder through a screw type side feeder. A transport capacity of the side feeder is 2 times or more an effective volume of the powder per unit time. In the extruder, melting and kneading are performed under conditions in which resin pressure in a first kneading zone is 1 MPa or more, and resin pressure in a second kneading zone is less than 3 MPa, and gas is removed from a vent port.

Abstract: A method for producing a resin composition is provided. The method includes melting and kneading a thermoplastic resin having a transition temperature of less than 200° C. and a powder with a twin-screw kneading extruder. The powder is an inorganic filler having an apparent density of 0.1 to 1.5 g/ml. The resin is supplied from a supply port to the extruder, and the powder is supplied from a gravimetric feeder to the extruder through a screw type side feeder. A transport capacity of the side feeder is 2 times or more an effective volume of the powder per unit time. In the extruder, melting and kneading are performed under conditions in which resin pressure in a first kneading zone is 1 MPa or more, and resin pressure in a second kneading zone is less than 3 MPa, and gas is removed from a vent port.

Abstract: Disclosed are a propylene resin material capable of affording a molded article superior in impact properties, tensile properties, and appearance, and a method for producing the same. The propylene resin material includes a propylene homopolymer portion and a propylene-ethylene copolymer portion and satisfies specific requirements. The production method includes the step of mixing an organic peroxide with a propylene polymeric material produced via a multistage polymerization process using a polymerization catalyst and comprising a propylene homopolymer portion and a propylene-ethylene copolymer portion, the step of heating the mixture obtained via the mixing step, at a temperature lower than a decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide at which the half-life of the organic peroxide is one minute, and the step of washing the mixture heated in the heating step, with a medium containing an organic solvent.

Abstract: There is disclosed a resin composition from which a molded article excellent in scratch resistance and mechanical properties, low in gloss and low in shrinkage anisotropy can be obtained. Specifically, disclosed is a resin composition comprising 40% by weight to 90% by weight of a propylene polymeric material (A) containing 50% by weight or more of structural units derived from propylene, 9% by weight to 30% by weight of wollastonite (B), and 1% by weight to 30% by weight of an elastomer (C) where the combined amount of (A), (B) and (C) is taken as 100% by weight, wherein the wollastonite (B) satisfies specific requirements.

Abstract: There is disclosed a resin composition from which a molded article excellent in scratch resistance and mechanical properties, low in gloss and low in shrinkage anisotropy can be obtained. Specifically, disclosed is a resin composition comprising 40% by weight to 90% by weight of a propylene polymeric material (A) containing 50% by weight or more of structural units derived from propylene, 9% by weight to 30% by weight of wollastonite (B), and 1% by weight to 30% by weight of an elastomer (C) where the combined amount of (A), (B) and (C) is taken as 100% by weight, wherein the wollastonite (B) satisfies specific requirements.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a resin composition which is good in dispersability of a biodegradable resin. This method has a first kneading step of kneading (A) a biodegradable resin and (B) a compound that is reactive with the biodegradable resin (A) to produce a resin composition precursor, and a second kneading step of kneading the resin composition precursor and a polyolefin resin (C).

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a modified propylene polymer that exhibits low flowability and also exhibits little fluctuation in melt flow rate compared with the melt flow rate of the propylene polymer before modification, the method involving a heat treatment step of subjecting a mixture comprising 100 parts by weight of a propylene polymer (A), from 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing compound (B), and from 0.01 to 20 parts by weight of an organic peroxide (C) whose decomposition temperature at which the half-life thereof becomes 1 minute is lower than 120° C. to heat treatment by using an extruder at a temperature lower than the decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide (C) at which the half-life thereof becomes 1 minute.

Abstract: Disclosed are a propylene resin material capable of affording a molded article superior in impact properties, tensile properties, and appearance, and a method for producing the same. The propylene resin material includes a propylene homopolymer portion and a propylene-ethylene copolymer portion and satisfies specific requirements. The production method includes the step of mixing an organic peroxide with a propylene polymeric material produced via a multistage polymerization process using a polymerization catalyst and comprising a propylene homopolymer portion and a propylene-ethylene copolymer portion, the step of heating the mixture obtained via the mixing step, at a temperature lower than a decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide at which the half-life of the organic peroxide is one minute, and the step of washing the mixture heated in the heating step, with a medium containing an organic solvent.

Abstract: Provided is a polyolefin-based resin composition comprising from 30 to 90% by mass of a polyolefin resin (A), from 1 to 50% by mass of an aliphatic polyester-based resin (B) , from 1 to 40% by mass of an ethylene-octene rubber (C) having a melt flow rates being higher than 3 g/10 minutes and not higher than 40 g/10 minutes, and from 0.01 to 20% by mass of an epoxy group-containing ethylene-based polymers (D); molded articles obtainable by molding the composition is superior in tensile elongation and impact resistance.

Abstract: This invention provides a resin composition comprising a polyolefin-based polymer and an aliphatic polyester-based polymer, which has an excellent balance of impact resistance and rigidity and excellent properties, such as processability. The resin composition comprises a polyolefin-based polymer (A), an aliphatic polyester-based polymer (B), an elastomer (C), which has a melt flow rate (MFR), measured at 190° C. under a load of 21N, of 0.5 to 3.0 g/10 minutes, and an epoxy group-containing polyolefin-based polymer (D).

Abstract: Disclosed are processes for producing polypropylene resin compositions including two or three sorts of propylene-based polymeric materials, the processes including a first step of melt-kneading at least a propylene-?-olefin block copolymer containing a polymer portion composed mainly of propylene and a propylene-?-olefin copolymer portion having a relatively high intrinsic viscosity and a second step of melt-kneading the product of the first step with a propylene-ethylene block copolymer containing a polymer portion composed mainly of propylene and a propylene-ethylene copolymer portion having a relatively low intrinsic viscosity or a polymer portion composed mainly of propylene having a relatively low intrinsic viscosity. In the composition produced by these processes, no or substantially no fish eyes develop.

Abstract: Disclosed are processes for producing polypropylene resin compositions including two or three sorts of propylene-based polymeric materials, the processes including a first step of melt-kneading at least a propylene-?-olefin block copolymer containing a polymer portion composed mainly of propylene and a propylene-?-olefin copolymer portion having a relatively high intrinsic viscosity and a second step of melt-kneading the product of the first step with a propylene-ethylene block copolymer containing a polymer portion composed mainly of propylene and a propylene-ethylene copolymer portion having a relatively low intrinsic viscosity or a polymer portion composed mainly of propylene having a relatively low intrinsic viscosity. In the composition produced by these processes, no or substantially no fish eyes develop.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a modified propylene polymer that exhibits low flowability and also exhibits little fluctuation in melt flow rate compared with the melt flow rate of the propylene polymer before modification, the method involving a heat treatment step of subjecting a mixture comprising 100 parts by weight of a propylene polymer (A), from 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing compound (B), and from 0.01 to 20 parts by weight of an organic peroxide (C) whose decomposition temperature at which the half-life thereof becomes 1 minute is lower than 120° C. to heat treatment by using an extruder at a temperature lower than the decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide (C) at which the half-life thereof becomes 1 minute.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a modified propylene polymer excellent in the balance between melt tension and flowability, the method involving a heat treatment step of subjecting a mixture comprising 100 parts by weight of a propylene polymer (A) and from 0.01 to 20 parts by weight of an organic peroxide (B) whose decomposition temperature at which the half-life thereof becomes 1 minute is lower than 120° C. to heat treatment by using an extruder at a temperature lower than the decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide (B) at which the half-life thereof becomes 1 minute.

Abstract: Disclosed is a modified propylene polymer excellent in the balance between melt tension and flowability, the modified propylene polymer being obtainable by reacting 100 parts by weight of a propylene polymers (A), from 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing compounds (B), and from 0.01 to 20 parts by weight of an organic peroxide (C), wherein a melt flow rate measured at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg and a melt tension measured at 190° C. satisfy the following formula (1): MT>9×MFR(?0.9)??(1).

Abstract: Provided is a polyolefin-based resin composition comprising from 30 to 90% by mass of a polyolefin resin (A), from 1 to 50% by mass of an aliphatic polyester-based resin (B) , from 1 to 40% by mass of an ethylene-octene rubber (C) having a melt flow rates being higher than 3 g/10 minutes and not higher than 40 g/10 minutes, and from 0.01 to 20% by mass of an epoxy group-containing ethylene-based polymers (D) ; molded articles obtainable by molding the composition is superior in tensile elongation and impact resistance.

Abstract: There is provided a propylene-based resin composition containing 10 to 89% by mass of a propylene-based polymer (A) (excluding a modified propylene-based polymer (C) defined below), 10 to 89% by mass of a polylactic acid-based resin (B), and 1 to 80% by mass of a modified propylene-based polymer (C) which is an ?,?-unsaturated glycidyl ester-grafted propylene-based polymer having an ?,?-unsaturated glycidyl ester-derived structural unit content of 0.1% by mass or more and less than 1.0% by mass, provided that each of the contents of the propylene-based polymer (A), the polylactic acid-based resin (B) and the modified propylene-based polymer (C) is an amount based on the total amount of the three components.

Abstract: This invention provides a molded article that is excellent in planar impact resistance and shape stability by the use of a composition comprising a polyolefin-based polymer and an aliphatic polyester-based polymer and that is less likely to experience layer separation at the time of molding and a method for producing the same. Such a molded article comprises a resin composition comprising a polyolefin-based polymer (A), an aliphatic polyester-based polymer (B), an ethylene-? olefin-based elastomer (C), and an epoxy group-containing polyolefin-based polymer (D), and the aliphatic polyester-based polymer (B) has an aspect ratio A1 of 1.0 to 3.6 at a flow length of 0.1 L and an aspect ratio A2 of 1.0 to 3.8 at a flow length of 0.9 L when the maximum flow length is designated as L.

Abstract: This invention provides a resin composition comprising a polyolefin-based polymer and an aliphatic polyester-based polymer, which has an excellent balance of impact resistance and rigidity and excellent properties, such as processability. The resin composition comprises a polyolefin-based polymer (A), an aliphatic polyester-based polymer (B), an elastomer (C), which has a melt flow rate (MFR), measured at 190° C. under a load of 21N, of 0.5 to 3.0 g/10 minutes, and an epoxy group-containing polyolefin-based polymer (D).

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a resin composition which is good in dispersability of a biodegradable resin. This method has a first kneading step of kneading (A) a biodegradable resin and (B) a compound that is reactive with the biodegradable resin (A) to produce a resin composition precursor, and a second kneading step of kneading the resin composition precursor and a polyolefin resin (C).