Provided herein are multilayer polymeric interlayers comprising ionomers and acoustic damping compositions, and glass laminates made from them, which provide an improved combination of hurricane resistance, acoustic damping properties and, optionally, solar barrier performance.

A polystyrene copolymer blend product achieving an optimal combination of haze/clarity, strength, toughness/snap, and organoleptic properties is provided. The polystyrene copolymer blend product includes a first layer forming about 2 to about 6 weight percent of the total weight percent of the product. The first layer includes from about 95 to about 100 weight percent of GPPS or HIPS, based on the weight of the layer. The polystyrene copolymer blend product includes a second (and optional third and fourth) layer(s) that firm about 98 to about 94 weight percent of the product. The second (and optional third and fourth) layer(s) include about 23 to about 43 weight percent of GPPS, from either about 35 to about 70 weight percent, such as from about 50 to about 65 weight percent of SBC, and from about 0 to about 17 weight percent of HIPS, based on the weight of the respective layer.

A laminated building sheathing comprises a rigid foam board and a facer. The rigid foam board comprises a drainage pattern formed on a major surface of the foam board. The drainage pattern comprises a drainage channel. The facer is configured to cover the major surface of the rigid form board and to essentially conform to the drainage pattern. The facer is semi-permanently bonded to the drainage channel but permanently bonded to non-channel planar portions of the major surface.

The present invention relates to a hot-melt adhesive resin film having an excellent adhesive force and durability to various adherends such as metal, glass, and plastic, and a production method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a hot-melt adhesive resin film including a first surface layer, a first intermediate layer, a substrate layer having heat resistance, a second intermediate layer, and a second surface layer, which are laminated in this order, in which the first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer include a resin which is obtained by modifying a copolymer of propylene and 1-butene with maleic acid, and a production method thereof.

A method for producing a printed material includes forming a color image having an image area ratio of 20% or less on a peripheral edge portion of a recording medium by using a coloring material; providing pressure-induced phase transition particles to a region of the recording medium, the region including the peripheral edge portion; bonding the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles onto the recording medium; and folding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and pressure-bonding the folded recording medium, or pressure-bonding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and another recording medium placed on top of each other. The pressure-induced phase transition particles contain a styrene resin and a (meth)acrylic acid ester resin, the styrene resin contains styrene and a vinyl monomer other than styrene as polymerization components, the (meth)acrylic acid ester resin contains at least two (meth)acrylic acid esters as polymerization components, and a mass ratio of the (meth)acrylic acid esters is 90 mass % or more of a total of all polymerization components of the (meth)acrylic acid ester resin. The pressure-induced phase transition particles have at least two glass transition temperatures, and a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature among the glass transition temperatures of the pressure-induced phase transition particles is 30? C. or more.

A cellulosic substrate includes a first major side and a second major side opposed from the first major side, a single polyolefin aqueous polymer dispersion barrier layer on the first major side of the cellulosic substrate, and at least one non-polyolefin aqueous polymer dispersion coating layer between the single polyolefin aqueous polymer dispersion barrier layer and the first major side of the cellulosic substrate.

The invention features a thermoplastic film comprising greater than 70% by weight of a styrene block copolymer having an unsaturated mid block, diblock content of no greater than about 10% by weight and a MFR of from about 15 to about 200 ASTM D 1238 (190 C., 2.16-kg). The thermoplastic film can be used to form elastic composites that are useful in disposable articles (e.g. disposable absorbent articles).

A multi-layer foam sheet with an apparent density of 30 to 300 kg/m.sup.3 and a thickness of 0.05 to 2 mm, including a foam layer containing a polyethylene-based resin (A), and an antistatic layer fusion-laminated by coextrusion on each of both sides of the foam layer. The antistatic layer has a basis weight of 1 to 10 g/m.sup.2 and contains a polyethylene-based resin (B), a polystyrene-based resin, a styrenic elastomer, and a polymeric antistatic agent, with the polystyrene-based resin being contained in the antistatic layer in an amount of 15 to 70% by weight.

An adhesive composition that can be used in an extrusion-coating process for application to a support or in an extrusion-laminating process in order to bond several supports of different or identical nature to one another, over a wide temperature range, including: from 91% to 98% by weight of the composition, of a copolymer of ethylene and of alkyl acrylate; at least one tackifying resin; processing aids, wherein the tackifying resin represents between 1.5% and 5.5% of the weight of the composition and the processing aids represent between 0.5% and 3.5% of the weight of the composition and the anti-blocking agent represents, in the processing aids, at least 60% by weight of the aids. Also, a film of the composition and a multilayer structure that includes this film.

A method of activating the shrink characteristic of a multi-layered film (1), the method comprising the steps of providing a multi-layered film comprising at least a base layer film (2) that comprises a shrinkable film, and a photothermic layer (3), associated with the base layer film, and comprising a photothermic material, exposing the multi-layered film (1) to electromagnetic radiation in order for the photothermic material to generate heat and shrink the multi-layered film (1), wherein the electromagnetic radiation comprises UV-light having a peak wavelength between 200 nm and 399 nm, and at least 90% of the UV-light is within a bandwidth of 30 nm of the peak wavelength.