Rubber compositions having a modified rubber component selected from a modified polybutadiene rubber, a modified styrene-butadiene rubber, or combinations thereof, the modification being with a functional group having a hydrogen bond acceptor atom. Such functional group may be selected from a pyridine, a pyrrolidone, an ether, a ketone or an epoxide, the rubber composition having a Tg of between 80 C. and 110 C. The rubber composition may include an efficient plasticizing resin, which when included in a mixture consisting of the modified rubber component and 67 phr of the efficient plasticizing resin, causes a Tg of the mixture to be at least 14 C. higher than the Tg of the modified rubber component. The rubber composition may described as having the hydrogen bond acceptor atom located at least two covalent bond lengths or alternatively three covalent bond lengths from a backbone of the modified rubber component.

The invention relates to a film laminate (1), comprising at least one compact decorative layer (2) with a lacquer layer (3) on the upper side and with a foam layer (4) on the underside, where the density of the foam layer (4) is more than 500 kg/m.sup.3. The invention further relates to the use of said film laminate (1) for the coating of components for the interior trim of motor vehicles and to interior trim parts of motor vehicles provided with said film laminate (1).

The foam layer (4) of thermoformable film laminates (1) for the coating of interior trim parts for a motor vehicle in the region of the airbag covers and/or in the region of the tear seams of the airbag covers, where these have no lines of weakness, is based on a composition which comprises a) from 15 to 60 parts by weight of at least one thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) b) from 15 to 35 parts by weight of at least one high melt strength polyolefin (HMS polyolefin) and c) from 30 to 60 parts by weight of at least one low density polyethylene (LDPE),
where the proportions of a), b) and c) give a total of 100.

A polyamide-long glass fiber reinforced composite material and a method for producing the same are respectively provided. The composite material includes an impregnating material and a glass fiber material. The impregnating material includes a polyamide resin, a toughener, and a compatibilizer. The toughener is an elastomer composed of a first polyolefin material and modified by maleic anhydride. The compatibilizer is a resin material composed of a second polyolefin material and modified by the maleic anhydride. A first melt flow index of the toughener is less than a second melt flow index of the compatibilizer. The glass fiber material is impregnated and covered by the impregnating material. The glass fiber material includes a long glass fiber, and a surface of the long glass fiber is modified by at least one of a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group.

A method that includes providing a modified rubber component selected from a modified polybutadiene rubber (BR), a modified styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) or combinations thereof, wherein the modified rubber component has been modified with a functional group having a heteroatom selected from oxygen, nitrogen, silicon or combinations thereof and wherein the rubber component has a Tg of between 80 C. and 110 C. and selecting an efficient plasticizing resin. An efficient plasticizing resin is one that when included in a mixture of the modified rubber component and 67 phr of the efficient plasticizing resin, causes a Tg of the mixture to be at least 14 C. higher than the Tg of the modified rubber component itself. Methods may further include mixing between 70 phr and 100 phr of the modified rubber component with between 30 phr and 130 phr of the efficient plasticizing resin.

A single or multilayered film is presented having at least one layer that contains at least one thermoplastic olefin homo or copolymer, modified if need be. The layer contains additionally, at least one polyester. Such film is used as a sliding film or preliner in trenchless pipe renovation using the tube lining technique in which the film is layed on the inner wall of an underground sewer pipe laid that will be renovated. An insertion pipe with a curable carrier material can be pulled in sliding fashion over the sliding film laid on the pipe.

A method of producing a glass fiber-reinforced recycled PPS resin composition, includes: crushing a molded product containing a polyphenylene sulfide resin and glass fibers to obtain a crushed molded product (A), and mixing the crushed molded product (A) and a PPS resin composition (B) containing 40 to 90 wt % of the PPS resin having a weight average molecular weight of 20,000 to 60,000 and 10 to 60 wt % of glass fibers. The glass fiber-reinforced recycled PPS resin composition suppresses breakage of glass fibers at the time of recycling the glass fiber-reinforced PPS resin composition, and has excellent mechanical properties.

The invention relates to a biomaterial and/or a biocomposite based on sunflower seed shells/husks. According to the invention, it is proposed that sunflower seed shells/husks are used instead of wood, bamboo or other wood-like fiber products as the original material for the biocomposite products and are used for the production of such products in order to improve the previous biomaterials, and in particular also to design said materials for improved cost efficiency and to improve their material properties.

The present invention relates to methods for making cross-linked, oxidatively stable, and highly crystalline polymeric materials. The invention also provides methods of treating irradiation-cross-linked antioxidant-containing polymers and materials used therewith.

A polyamide resin composition is provided which contains an anti-aging agent together with a deterioration inhibitor, such as a metal compound or a silica-based inorganic compound, for preventing deterioration caused by, for example, an acid component or a halogen component contained in a refrigerant or an oil, and which satisfactorily produces an anti-aging effect expected by adding the anti-aging agent. For producing a polyamide resin composition containing an (a) polyamide resin, a (b) polyolefin-based elastomer, at least one (c) deterioration inhibitor selected from the group consisting of hydroxides, oxides and basic salts of divalent or trivalent metals, and silica-based inorganic compounds, and a (d) anti-aging agent, a mixture prepared by mixing and kneading the (c) deterioration inhibitor and (b) polyolefin-based elastomer and a mixture prepared by mixing and kneading the (a) polyamide resin and the (d) anti-aging agent are mixed and kneaded.

Provided are: a photostabilizer masterbatch in which the problems of the occurrence of blocking over time due to the effect of temperature fluctuations in the environment and the difficulty in handling due to the resulting solidification in aggregates are overcome; and a method of producing the same.

The photostabilizer masterbatch is obtained by adding and mixing 80 to 300 parts by mass of (B) a hindered amine compound represented by the following Formula (1) with respect to 100 parts by mass of (A) a silica produced by a wet process and subsequently further adding and mixing 5 to 50 parts by mass of (C) a silica produced by a dry process:

##STR00001## (wherein, R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxy or hydroxyalkoxy group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, or an oxy radical; and R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms, or a group represented by the following Formula (2))

##STR00002## (wherein, R.sup.3 represents the same as R.sup.1 in the Formula (1)).