The present invention provides methods for preparing the nut waste pot composites from a nut waste component, one or more binders, and an oil using a compounder/extruder.

A method of detecting faults and ensuring integrity of membranes having magnetically functionalized particles, including moving a magnetometer over the membrane to measure at least one magnetic property, mapping the location of the measured properties, identifying anomalies among measured properties including the location of such anomalies, and repairing the membrane at the location where anomalies are identified.

Provided is a microporous film which has a surface A and a surface B opposite to the surface A. In one embodiment, the microporous film has a ratio (F.sub.B/F.sub.A) of a dynamic friction coefficient F.sub.B of the surface B to a dynamic friction coefficient F.sub.A of the surface A of 1.2 to 20. In another embodiment, the microporous film is a single layer having a thickness of 3-18 μm, a number N.sub.A of pores on the surface A is 10-100/μm.sup.2, a number N.sub.B of pores on the surface B is 20-200/μm.sup.2, and N.sub.A/N.sub.B is 0.2-0.96. In addition, a total area S.sub.A of pores on the surface A is 0.02-0.5 μm.sup.2/μm.sup.2, a total area S.sub.B of pores on the surface B is 0.01-0.3 μm.sup.2/μm.sup.2, and S.sub.A/S.sub.B is 1.1-10. Furthermore, in another embodiment, a number W.sub.B of protrusion-like bodies on the surface B is 0.2-1000/100 μm.sup.2.

A resin composition containing a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin, 0.1% by mass or more and 1.2% by mass or less of a surfactant, and at least any one of an inorganic filler and silicone particles, wherein the resin composition is free of a plasticizer or comprises 5.0% by mass or less of a plasticizer, and satisfies at least any one of the following requirements (1) and (2). (1) The content of the inorganic filler is 1% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less (2) The content of the silicone particles is 0.01% by mass or more and 0.45% by mass or less

A method for manufacturing a fiber-containing sheet. In extruding resin into sheet form using a T-die, the extrusion from the T-die is performed with a first resin for forming a core layer and a second resin for forming both skin layers on both sides of the core layer laminated together. The first resin contains fiber material and the second resin does not contain fiber material.

A method of manufacturing a film (F1) including cavities and formed from a polymer in which a cavitating agent is dispersed, said method including a step of extruding the polymer through an extrusion die equipped with adjustment actuators for adjusting thickness of the extruded film, and a step of stretching (Str1) the film, as well as establishing a mapping function of the film on the basis of mass-per-unit-area profiles of the film before and after the stretching step, establishing a stretch profile of the film as stretched on the basis of said mapping function and of said transverse mass-per-unit-area profiles, and establishing a characteristic transverse profile that is characteristic of the film on the basis of said stretch profile and of a transverse profile of the concentration by mass of cavitating agent in the film as stretched that makes it possible to take into account the distribution of the cavities in the film; in which method said adjustment actuators are controlled as a function of said characteristic transverse profile.

The invention concerns a film based on a binary polymer composition having at least a first polymer and a second polymer. The film is oriented by extruding and stretching the film in at least the machine direction. The glass-transition temperature (Tg) of the first polymer is greater than the orientation temperature and the glass-transition temperature (Tg) of the second polymer is lower than the orientation temperature. Furthermore, a method and use related thereto are described.

The present disclosure relates to a polyester resin blend and a molded article formed therefrom. The polyester resin blend exhibits excellent processability even if it contains recycled polyethylene terephthalate as well as virgin polyethylene terephthalate, and can provide high-quality molded articles, especially by extrusion blow molding. In addition, it can be reused, and it is expected to be useful for providing continuously usable plastics that have been recently attracting attention.

The present disclosure relates to a thermoplastic resin composition and a molded article including the same. The thermoplastic resin composition includes 10 to 70% by weight of a graft copolymer (A) including an acrylate-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound graft copolymer (A-1) containing acrylate rubber having an average particle diameter of 50 to 150 nm and an acrylate-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound graft copolymer (A-2) containing acrylate rubber having an average particle diameter of 300 to 600 nm; and 30 to 90% by weight of a non-grafted copolymer (B) including a high molecular weight aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound copolymer (B-1) having a weight average molecular weight of 160,000 to 200,000 g/mol and a low molecular weight aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound copolymer (B-2) having a weight average molecular weight of 80,000 g/mol or more and less than 160,000 g/mol.

A chaff resistant and economically recyclable dunnage tray is disclosed. In one aspect, the dunnage tray includes a base portion formed from a first material and a top portion formed from a second material. The top portion is secured to the base portion, and defines at least one cavity or recess for supporting a machine component. The first and second materials are high density polyethylene (HDPE) materials with the second material including polyethylene elastomers, or plastomers. In one example, the dunnage tray is formed by thermoforming a co-extruded sheet including a first layer corresponding to the bottom structural portion and a second layer corresponding to the elastomer or plastomer portion. In one example, the dunnage tray is formed by thermoforming an extruded sheet to form the base portion and by attaching separately formed top portions with polyethylene elastomers, or plastomers to the thermoformed base portion. This invention provides solutions to chaffing or chipping of polyethylene dunnage trays, control of coefficient of friction and softness to minimize parts from sliding/abrading dunnage surfaces, and eliminates requirements for disassembly of dunnage trays and separation of materials prior to recycling.