Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a copolymer containing polyether blocks and polyamide blocks for manufacturing an inflatable catheter element, such as a catheter balloon, with improved bursting strength, in which said copolymer has the following characteristics: a number-average molecular mass of the PE blocks greater than 500 g/mol, and a number-average molecular mass of the PA blocks greater than 10,000 g/mol.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one prepolymer in a composition which includes: a matrix of at least one transparent semi-crystalline polyamide, and optionally at least one additive, for improving the crystallisation kinetics and reducing the warping of the composition while preserving or improving the transparency properties thereof as well as the mechanical properties thereof, in comparison with the same composition without a prepolymer, wherein the composition does not contain a nucleating agent.

Abstract: Provided is a composition including (A) 65% to 95% of a polyamide mixture, (B) 7% to 30% of at least one impact modifier or of at least one core-shell entity or of a mixture thereof, and (C) 0 to 5% of at least one additive chosen from stabilizers, dyes, plasticizers, fibers, fillers, processing aids or a mixture thereof. The composition may be used, for example, to produce an article by extruding, injection molding, molding or thermoforming.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a copolymer containing polyether blocks and polyamide blocks for manufacturing an inflatable catheter element, such as a catheter balloon, with improved bursting strength, in which said copolymer has the following characteristics: a number-average molecular mass of the PE blocks greater than 500 g/mol, and a number-average molecular mass of the PA blocks greater than 10,000 g/mol.

Abstract: A copolymer containing polyether blocks and polyamide blocks for manufacturing an inflatable catheter element, such as a catheter balloon, with improved bursting strength, in which said copolymer has the following characteristics: number-average molecular mass of the PE blocks greater than 500 g/mol, and number-average molecular mass of the PA blocks greater than 10 000 g/mol.

Abstract: Composition including: (A) 50% to 95% of at least one semicrystalline polyamide of formula A/Z in which: A is an aliphatic repeating unit chosen from a unit obtained from the polycondensation of at least one amino acid and a unit obtained from the polycondensation of at least one lactam or a unit X.Y obtained from the polycondensation of at least one diamine, and of at least one dicarboxylic acid, and Z represents another polyamide and is included from 0 to 20%; (B) 5% to 50% of at least one semicrystalline copolyamide comprising amide units (Ba1) and including polyether units (Ba2), having a glass transition temperature (Tg) below 75° C.; (C) 0% to 20% by weight of fibres and/or fillers, (D) 0% to 20% of at least one impact modifier, (E) 0% to 5% of at least one additive, for the manufacture of a sports article.

Abstract: The invention relates to a copolymer having polyamide PA blocks and polyether PE blocks, in which PA is of diamine.diacid X.Y type; X, the number of carbons of the diamine, is within the range from 6 to 14, and Y, the number of carbons of the diacid, is within the range from 6 to 18. The invention also relates to the use of the said copolymer in a process of direct adhesion between two TPE materials for increasing the peel strength between these materials.

Abstract: The invention relates to a copolymer having polyamide PA blocks and polyether PE blocks, in which PA is of diamine.diacid X.Y type; X, the number of carbons of the diamine, is within the range from 6 to 14, and Y, the number of carbons of the diacid, is within the range from 6 to 18. The invention also relates to the use of the said copolymer in a process of direct adhesion between two TPE materials for increasing the peel strength between these materials.

Abstract: Provided is a composition including (A) 65% to 95% of a polyamide mixture, (B) 7% to 30% of at least one impact modifier or of at least one core-shell entity or of a mixture thereof, and (C) 0 to 5% of at least one additive chosen from stabilizers, dyes, plasticizers, fibers, fillers, processing aids or a mixture thereof. The composition may be used, for example, to produce an article by extruding, injection molding, molding or thermoforming.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one prepolymer in a composition which includes: a matrix of at least one transparent semi-crystalline polyamide, and optionally at least one additive, for improving the crystallisation kinetics and reducing the warping of the composition while preserving or improving the transparency properties thereof as well as the mechanical properties thereof, in comparison with the same composition without a prepolymer, wherein the composition does not contain a nucleating agent.

Abstract: Composition including: (A) 50% to 95% of at least one semicrystalline polyamide of formula A/Z in which: A is an aliphatic repeating unit chosen from a unit obtained from the polycondensation of at least one amino acid and a unit obtained from the polycondensation of at least one lactam or a unit X.Y obtained from the polycondensation of at least one diamine, and of at least one dicarboxylic acid, and Z represents another polyamide and is included from 0 to 20%; (B) 5% to 50% of at least one semicrystalline copolyamide comprising amide units (Ba1) and including polyether units (Ba2), having a glass transition temperature (Tg) below 75° C.; (C) 0% to 20% by weight of fibres and/or fillers, (D) 0% to 20% of at least one impact modifier, (E) 0% to 5% of at least one additive, for the manufacture of a sports article.

Abstract: A copolymer containing polyether blocks and polyamide blocks for manufacturing an inflatable catheter element, such as a catheter balloon, with improved bursting strength, in which said copolymer has the following characteristics: number-average molecular mass of the PE blocks greater than 500 g/mol, and number-average molecular mass of the PA blocks greater than 10 000 g/mol.

Abstract: The invention relates to a copolymer having polyamide PA blocks and polyether PE blocks, in which PA is of diamine.diacid X.Y type; X, the number of carbons of the diamine, is within the range from 6 to 14, and Y, the number of carbons of the diacid, is within the range from 6 to 18. The invention also relates to the use of the said copolymer in a process of direct adhesion between two TPE materials for increasing the peel strength between these materials.

Abstract: A hydrophobic polyether-block-polyamide copolymer (PEBA) for the manufacture of a fabric material capable of cooling after the material has been brought into contact with an aqueous medium at a temperature lying in the range from 15° C. to Tm-20° C., Tm being the melting point of the fabric material, the aqueous medium comprising at least 85 wt % water relative to the weight of the aqueous medium, the PEBA comprising 20 to 80 wt % polyamide blocks and 80 to 20 wt % polyether blocks and having a saturated water absorption of less than 6 wt % according to the ISO 62 standard relative to the weight of PEBA, a cooling fabric comprising such a PEBA and the use of this fabric in the medical, hygiene, baggage, confection, clothing, domestic or household equipment, furnishing, carpet, automotive or industrial fields, especially for industrial filtration, agricultural and/or building matter.

Abstract: “The present invention relates to the use of an encapsulated adhesion promoter in an effective amount in an aqueous adhesive joint, said aqueous adhesive joint being intended to bond a surface of a first substrate (S1) to a surface of a second substrate (S2), at least one of said two substrates comprising a material (TPE-PA) comprising at least one thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) and/or at least one polyamide (PA), said adhesion promoter (P) comprising at least one organic molecule having at least one isocyanate function blocked by encapsulation of said organic molecule.

Abstract: “The invention relates to a method for producing a laminate comprising at least two polymer layers, a layer (A) and a layer (B), which are fixed to each other by at least one aqueous-type adhesive polymer material layer (C).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the assembly by adhesive bonding of a first substrate S1 made of thermoplastic polymer elastomer (abbreviation TPE) or of omopolymeric polyamide (abbreviation PA) or copolymeric polyamide (abbreviation coPA) and of a second substrate S2. The substrates S1 and S2 can be of the same kind, in other words made of TPE or of homopolymeric PA or of coPA, or may be of different kinds. Generally speaking, the thermoplastic polymer elastomer (TPE) substrates S1 are assembled by adhesive bonding with other substrates S2 by means of adhesives or glues based on organic solvent, which are also referred to as two-component solvent-borne polyurethane adhesives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an adhesion promoter (P) in an effective amount in a cleaning solution (N) in order to form an adhesion promoter cleaning solution (CP), the said solution (CP) being intended to clean the surface of a substrate made of (TPE-PA) material, that is to say of material comprising at least one thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) and/or at least one polyamide (PA) and/or their blend(s), and to increase the adhesion of the said surface to aqueous adhesive bonds, the said adhesion promoter (P) comprising at least one organic molecule comprising at least one isocyanate functional group masked by at least one masking agent.