Embodiments of the present invention encompass methods of forming a foamed polyolefin and articles and materials of the foamed polyolefin. The foamed materials and articles may be used in applications requiring thermal insulation.

The method for the physical reutilization of sheet-like siliconized structures comprises treating the sheet-like siliconized structure in a liquid digestion system comprising acetic anhydride and/or an acetoxysiloxane, and at least one Brønsted acid, optionally solvent, preferably with addition of acetic acid, and removing the desiliconized sheet-like structure from the liquid phase.

The present invention is to provide a method for producing a laminate having excellent adhesion properties. An embodiment of the present invention is a method for producing a laminate, the method including: a step 1 of dry-treating a surface A of a plastic to obtain a dry-treated plastic having a surface B that has been dry-treated; a step 2 of wiping the surface B with a cleaning tool containing a composition for wiping, the composition containing at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of water and polar solvents, and a silane coupling agent, to obtain a cleaned plastic having a surface C that has been wiped with the cleaning tool; and a step 3 of applying at least one selected from the group consisting of adhesives and primers on the surface C to obtain a laminated body.

There are provided a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article including a thermoplastic resin [A], carbon fibers [B] and a polyrotaxane [C], the thermoplastic resin [A], the carbon fibers [B] and the polyrotaxane [C] being included in amounts of 40 to 98 parts by weight, 1 to 40 parts by weight and 1 to 20 parts by weight, respectively, based on 100 parts by weight of the total content of the thermoplastic resin [A], the carbon fibers [B] and the polyrotaxane [C], wherein the carbon fibers [B] included in the molded article have a weight-average fiber length [Lw] in a range of 0.5 to 20 mm, and a ratio ([C]/[B]) of the content of the polyrotaxane [C] to that of the carbon fibers [B] is 0.04 or more and 0.5 or less; and a thermoplastic resin molded article which has excellent impact strength and also has excellent conductivity.

Provided is a resin particle producing method including: a fiber aggregate producing step of directly joining fibers containing a thermoplastic resin with each other to obtain a fiber aggregate; and a particle forming step of forming the fiber aggregate into particles to obtain resin particles.

A polymeric substrate is disclosed. The polymeric substrate comprises a barrier layer including a polymeric material comprising about 50 wt. % or more of at least one polyolefin polymer and 50 wt. % or less of a hydrocarbon resin. The polymeric material exhibits a DTUL of 30° C. or more and a tensile modulus of 500 MPa or more and/or a flexural secant modulus of 500 MPa or more. The barrier layer has a thickness of greater than 200 μm to 6,500 μm. A shaped polymeric article comprising the polymeric substrate is also disclosed.

“PROCESS FOR RECYCLING LAMINATED POLYMER PACKAGING USING ETHYLENE GLYCOL” applied in polymeric packaging containing one or more materials from a group formed by PP, PE, PET and aluminum; said process being comprising performing the selective dissolution of PET, reusing it as a product of its reaction with glycol, as well as separating aluminum in its metallic form and PP and PE as a supernatant portion in said product.

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 polyolefin formulation comprising constituents (A) to (E) in the following amounts: from 15.0 to 55.0 weight percent (wt %) of (A) a polypropylene homopolymer; from 77.9 to 30.0 wt % of (B) a poly(ethylene-co-1-alkene) copolymer; from 3.0 to 6.5 wt % of (C) an ethylene/propylene diblock copolymer; from 4.0 to 8.0 wt % of (D) a saturated-and-aromatic (C.sub.14-C.sub.60)hydrocarbon; and from 0.1 to 1.5 wt % of (E) an antioxidant; wherein the wt % of (B) divided by the wt % (A) is a mass ratio of from 5.0:1.0 to 0.50:1.0; and wherein the amounts of constituents (A), (B), and (C) total from 88.0 to 95.9 wt % of the polyolefin formulation; and wherein the amounts of constituents (A) to (E) total from 92.1 to 100.0 wt % of the polyolefin formulation.

A process for preparing a recycle content polyester and a recycle content polyester composition comprising at least one polyester having at least one residue in the polyester derived from a recycle propylene composition are provided.