An expanded polypropylene resin particle includes a polypropylene resin composition that serves as a base material resin. The polypropylene resin composition includes a first polypropylene resin having a melting point of 140° C. or less, a second polypropylene resin having a melting point of 145° C. or more, and a polyethylene resin having a melting point of 120° C. to 135° C. The first polypropylene resin accounts for 50 to 75 weight %, the second polypropylene resin accounts for 25 to 50 weight %, and the polyethylene resin accounts for 1 to 10 weight %, wherein the weight % is based on a total amount of the first polypropylene resin, the second polypropylene resin, and the polyethylene resin.

Provided herein are compositions including a blend of a propylene-based elastomer, a propylene polymer, and a foaming agent.

Injection molded article made from a composition containing 81-88 wt % of a propylene homopolymer (A) having a melt flow rate of between 1 and 2 g/10 min, 12-19 wt % of a propylene-ethylene copolymer (B) containing 45-65 wt % of ethylene, and 50-10000 ppm by weight of a nucleating agent. The total ethylene content of the composition is 6-10 wt %, and the melt flow rate (MFR) of the composition is 0.7-2 g/10 min.

A terpolymer compositions made from or containing: A) From 80 wt % to 97 wt %; of a first propylene, ethylene, 1-butene terpolymer having: i) the content of ethylene derived units ranging from 0.5 wt % to 3.2 wt %; ii) the content of 1-butene derived units ranging from 7.2 wt % to 14.8 wt %; and B) From 20 wt % to 3 wt %; of a second propylene, ethylene, 1-butene terpolymer having: i) the content of ethylene derived units ranging from 0.5 wt % to 3.2 wt %; ii) the content of 1-butene derived units ranging from 14.4 wt % to 26.5 wt %; and
the terpolymer composition having the melt flow rate, MFR, measured according to ISO 1133 at 230° C. with a load of 2.16 kg, ranging from 3.0 g/10 min to 20.0 g/10 min; the sum of the amounts of A) and B) being 100 wt %.

The invention relates to an expandable bead comprising a) a polyolefin selected from polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and mixtures thereof and b) thermoplastic microspheres encapsulating a blowing agent.

An expanded polypropylene resin particle is obtained from a base material resin having a melting point of 140° C. to 150° C., wherein the base material resin includes a polypropylene resin A including 3 weight % to 15 weight % of 1-butene and having a melting point of 130° C. to 140° C.; and a polypropylene resin B having a melting point of 145° C. to 165° C., and wherein the expanded polypropylene resin particle has an average cell diameter of 100 μm to 340 μm.

A polarizing film includes a hydrophobic polymer and a dichroic dye, wherein the hydrophobic polymer includes a polypropylene polymer including about 0.5 mol % or less of an ethylene content (mol %), and has a distribution of a molecular weight of about 1 to about 5.

Resin molded body obtained from a resin composition containing thermoplastic resin, flame retardant, and metal fiber. The molded body contains from 15 to 30 mass % of flame retardant and from 2.5 to 7.5 mass % of metal fiber, the remainder being thermoplastic resin. The molded body has a determination result of V-0 or V-1 in a burning test using the UL 94 V test method. The molded body satisfies the following: a thickness of the resin molded body is from 1.5 to 8.0 mm; the molded body self-extinguishes within five minutes after a burning test; the molded body does not have a hole after burning; and the molded body has an electromagnetic wave shielding property of more than 30 dB using a KEC method electric field in a frequency range from 1 to 100 MHz.

The invention provides a multimodal propylene butene random copolymer having a melt flow rate (MFR2) of 1.0 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 1.5 to 8.0 wt %, wherein said copolymer is prepared using a single site catalyst and wherein said copolymer comprises (i) 30 to 70 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (A) having an MFR2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 0.5 to 10.0 wt %; and (ii) 70 to 30 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (B) having an MFR2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 1.0 to 8.0 wt %; wherein copolymers (A) and (B) are different.

The invention provides a multimodal propylene butene random copolymer having a melt flow rate (MFR.sub.2) of 1.0 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 5.0 to 20.0 wt %, wherein said copolymer is prepared using a single site catalyst and wherein said copolymer comprises: (i) 30 to 70 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (A) having an MFR.sub.2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 2.0 to 10.0 wt %; and (ii) 70 to 30 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (B) having an MFR.sub.2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt %; wherein copolymers (A) and (B) are different.