Components for articles of footwear and athletic equipment including a foam are provided. The foam portion of the components and articles include a composition which includes a thermoplastic copolyester, the composition having a foam structure. A polymer layer is provided on at least on surface of the foam portion. The polymer layer can control or reduce the water uptake of the foam portion. Methods of making the compositions, foams, and components are provided, as well as methods of making an article of footwear including one of the foam components. In some aspects, the foams and foam components can be made by injection molding, or injection molding followed by compression molding.

A fiber-reinforced polymer composition a plurality of continuous fibers embedded and distributed within a thermoplastic polymer matrix is provided. The thermoplastic polymer matrix constitutes from about 20 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of the composition and the continuous fibers constitute from about 10 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of the composition. Further, the polymer composition has a deflection temperature under load of about 60 C. or more as determined in accordance with ISO 75:2013 at a load of 3.5 MPa.

The present invention realizes a card-use resin composition that exhibits beautiful colors and that has high laser-marking coloring properties, a card-use resin sheet formed with the card-use resin composition, and a card. The above problem has been solved by a card-use resin composition containing a laser coloring agent and a thermoplastic resin, wherein the thermoplastic resin contains a polycarbonate resin, and the laser coloring agent contains at least one type of black pigment, the primary particle diameter of the black pigment being 40 to 80 nm, and the amount of the black pigment with respect to the entire mass of the card-use resin composition being 20 to 40 mass ppm.

Disclosed is an inorganic reinforced thermoplastic polyester resin composition that does not lose the characteristics of a polyester resin, that maintains an excellent surface appearance while having high strength and high stiffness in a formulation containing an inorganic reinforcing material, such as glass fibers, and that undergoes less warping deformation and significantly less burr formation. The polyester resin composition comprises (A) 15 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less of a polybutylene terephthalate resin, (B) 1 mass % or more and less than 15 mass % of at least one polyester resin other than polybutylene terephthalate resins, (C) 5 mass % or more and 20 mass % or less of an amorphous resin, (D) 50 mass % or more and 70 mass % or less of an inorganic reinforcing material, (E) 0.1 mass % or more and 3 mass % or less of a glycidyl group-containing styrene copolymer, (F) 0.5 mass % or more and 2 mass % or less of an ethylene-glycidyl (meth)acrylate copolymer, and (G) 0.05 mass % or more and 2 mass % or less of a transesterification inhibitor.

A polycarbonate-polysiloxane includes specific amounts of first carbonate units having the structure ##STR00001##
wherein R.sup.1 is a C.sub.6-C.sub.16 divalent aromatic group, second carbonate units having the structure ##STR00002##
wherein R.sup.2 is a C.sub.17-C.sub.40 divalent aromatic group having the structure ##STR00003##
wherein R.sup.f, R.sup.g, R.sup.h, R.sup.i, R.sup.j, R.sup.k, X.sup.b, j, m, n, x, and y are defined herein. The polycarbonate-polysiloxane is useful for forming thin extruded films, which in turn are useful for fabricating electrostatic film capacitors.

Methods of making self-expended lignofoams are provided. In embodiments, such a method comprises exposing a self-expanding lignofoam composition comprising raw lignin and a thermoplastic polymer to an elevated temperature for a period of time to soften the composition, desorb water from the raw lignin or induce at least some hydroxyl groups of the raw lignin to undergo dehydration reactions to generate water or both, vaporize the water, and generate pores throughout the softened composition. The method further comprises cooling the porous, softened composition to room temperature to provide the self-expanded lignofoam. The self-expanding lignofoam composition is free of an added plasticizer, an added lubricant, an added foaming agent, and an added blowing agent, and the thermoplastic polymer is not a starch, not a polyurethane, and not a polysiloxane. The resulting self-expanded lignofoams are also provided.

The present invention relates to a composite material comprising one or more fibre layers composed of a fibre material and an aromatic polycarbonate-based matrix material. The fibre layer(s) is/are embedded in the matrix material. The present invention further relates to a process for producing these fibre composite materials, to multilayer composite materials comprising several layers of fibre composite material, and to the use of the composite materials for production of components or housing components or housings, and to the components, housing components or housings themselves.

The invention relates to the use of at least one compound of the formula (1) wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and denote a C.sub.1-C.sub.10-alkyl as a hydrolysis stabilizer in polyester materials. ##STR00001##

This disclosure pertains to novel polyvinyl chloride compositions containing polyvinyl chloride resins, polycarbonate resins and copolyester resins. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to polyvinyl chloride compositions including admixtures of polycarbonates and high glass transition temperature (T.sub.g) copolyesters to increase the T.sub.g and the heat distortion temperature under load (HDTUL) of the polyvinyl chloride compositions.

There is provided a composite article comprising a composite material comprising 60 wt % to 98 wt % of a hydrolytically stable thermoplastic resin; and 1 wt % to 11 wt % long conductive metal fibers coated with a polymer selected from at least one of aromatic polycarbonates, aromatic polycarbonate alloys, aromatic polyethers, maleated polyolefins, semi-aromatic nylons, stabilized nylons, and combinations thereof.