A household appliance includes a functional compartment, and an insulation arrangement arranged externally on the functional compartment for thermal and/or acoustic insulation of the functional compartment. The insulation arrangement includes a first insulation element made as a single piece from a plastic material which is selected such that a surface of the first insulation element in facing relation to the functional compartment adheres to the functional compartment and is separable therefrom in a non-destructive manner. An active drying system is operably connected to the functional compartment for active drying of an item received in the functional compartment.

In a method for producing an insulation arrangement for a functional compartment of a household appliance, a plastic material is foamed to form a foam block. The foam block is divided into blanks and each blank is shaped with a forming press to form an insulation arrangement.

A method for producing a polypropylene sheet having a thickness of 0.5 to 5 mm, the method comprising; a step 1 of preparing a precursor in which a first biaxially oriented polypropylene film having a thickness of less than 0.15 mm and a melting point Tmh and a second biaxially oriented polypropylene film having a thickness of less than 0.15 mm and a melting point of Tml are alternately laminated; a step 2 of bringing a heating element into contact with an outermost layer of the precursor to thermally seal layer of the films, where Tmh−Tml≥8(° C.) where the melting point is measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) under the condition at 30° C. to 230° C. and a heating rate of 10° C./min.

Provided is a thermoplastic resin laminate suitable for optical applications of transparent substrate materials and protective materials. The thermoplastic resin laminate includes a first layer including an amorphous polyester resin (A) as the main component, and a second layer including a (meth)acrylic resin (B) as the main component on the first layer.

A wooden decorative board includes: an uneven board made of natural wood and including a plurality of uneven portions provided on a surface due to xylem vessels; and a hard coat layer or a protective layer having uneven portions different in size provided on a surface of the uneven board, wherein concave portions and a plurality of concave portions smaller than the concave portions are provided on a surface of the hard coat layer or the protective layer.

The present invention relates to a sandwich panel and a method of manufacturing the same. The sandwich panel according to the present invention has high density and improved physical properties such as flexural strength, flexural modulus, bending strength and lightening weighting ratio and is suitable for use in various consumer products or industrial materials.

Internally reinforced aerogels, articles of manufacture and uses thereof are described. An internally reinforced aerogel includes an aerogel having a support at least partially penetrating the aerogel and having the aerogel penetrating the porous structure of the support.

To provide a multilayered body with high adhesion between a resin layer containing a nanofiber or the like and a metal layer, and a method for manufacturing a multilayered body. The multilayered body contains: a metal layer having an uneven region with an average length (RSm) of a contour curve element from 0.5 to 10 μm; and a resin layer in contact with the uneven region of the metal layer, the resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a fibrous filler, the fibrous filler having a number average fiber diameter (F) of less than 1 μm, and a ratio (RSm/F) of the average length (RSm) of the contour curve element of the uneven region to the number average fiber diameter (F) from 1 to 20000.

A decorative molding sheet including: an artificial leather substrate that includes a non-woven fabric containing ultrafine fibers with an average fineness of 0.001 to 1 dtex and an elastic polymer applied in the non-woven fabric, and that has a leather-like finished surface; and a resin layer that is formed on a back surface of the artificial leather substrate relative to the leather-like finished surface, and that contains a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, and a preform molded body obtained by shaping the decorative molding sheet into a three-dimensional shape are used.

A multilayer body for rolling includes a layer A and a layer B. The body is configured such that: if the sum of the total thicknesses of layers A and B is taken as 100%, the total thickness of layer A is from 0.5% to 10% (inclusive) and the total thickness of layer B is from 90% to 99.5% (inclusive), and layer A is arranged in at least one surface. Layer A contains a specific amount of a propylene polymer component, a specific amount of a specific resin component that has a polar group in the molecular chain, and a specific amount of a specific thermoplastic elastomer component that does not have a polar group in the molecular chain. Layer B contains a specific amount of a propylene polymer component and a specific amount of an inorganic filler.