The present invention provides a laminate having an adhesive layer excellent in low-temperature adhesiveness, water resistance, and hot water resistance. The laminate includes: a substrate; and an adhesive layer laminated on at least one surface of the substrate, in which the adhesive layer is obtained by drying a coated product of an aqueous dispersion containing water and a resin (X), and the resin (X) contains two or more kinds of ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymers (a) each having a different content of a structural unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid.

The disclosure relates to a mechanically recyclable label (1) comprising a face (2) and an adhesive (4). The face (2) comprises ethylene containing polymer and the adhesive (4) comprises pressure sensitive adhesive. The pressure sensitive adhesive comprises at least 15 wt. % of a base polymer, at least 25 wt. % of a tackifier and at least 10 wt. % of a plasticizer. The base polymer, the tackifier and the plasticizer are colourless and odourless. The base polymer is a polyolefin. The mechanically recyclable label (1) is mechanically recyclable with packaging material comprising ethylene containing polymer. The disclosure further relates to a label laminate (8), a method for manufacturing a label laminate (8), a labelled item (101), as well as to use of a label (1) and of a label laminate (8). The disclosure also relates to use of a waste matrix of the label laminate for producing granulates of recycled plastic.

An adhesive-coated polymer substrate comprising (a) a polymer substrate containing or consisting of a thermoplastic polymer with a Vicat A50 softening point according to DIN EN ISO 306 of up to 220° C., and (b) an adhesive composition coated directly on at least one side of the polymer substrate, wherein the adhesive composition (b) is a UV-curable or UV-cured hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) is disclosed. A process for the manufacture of the adhesive-coated polymer substrate as well as to the use thereof are also disclosed.

A laminate for a battery with a polypropylene adhesive layer and a metal substrate layer: (1) the adhesive includes 40-94 wt % of a propylene copolymer (A), 3-30 wt % of a butene-containing copolymer (B), 3-30 wt % of an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer (C) ((A), (B), and (C) is 100 wt %), (2) the copolymer (A) has a melting point of 130° C. or more measured with a differential scanning calorimeter, and a total proportion of a structural unit derived from ethylene is 4-25 mol % relative to 100 mol % of a total structural units forming all the copolymers (A) contained in the adhesive, (3) the copolymer (B) includes less than 1 mol % of a structural unit derived from ethylene, and has a melting point of 100° C. or less measured with a differential scanning calorimeter, and (4) the copolymer (C) includes 50-99 mol % of a structural unit derived from ethylene.

Provided is a self-adhesive sheet including a 4-methyl-1-pentene-based polymer. In the self-adhesive sheet, it is preferable that at least one or more temperatures showing a local maximum value of a loss tangent (tan δ) , which is obtained by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement under conditions of a temperature rising rate of 4° C./min, a frequency of 1.59 Hz, and a strain amount of 0.1%, are present in a range of 10° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower, the local maximum value of the loss tangent is 0.5 or more and 3.5 or less, an arithmetic average roughness Ra on one surface of the self-adhesive sheet is in a range of 0.01 to 10 .Math.m, and a ten-point average roughness Rz is in a range of 0.1 to 50 .Math.m.

An optical laminate is provided where stable durability is secured even at a high temperature, particularly an ultrahigh temperature of about 100° C. or higher, a foaming phenomenon or the like in a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is also suppressed or prevented, other physical properties required for the optical laminate are also excellent, and even in the case of being disposed adjacent to the electrode, corrosion of the relevant electrode or the like is not induced.

An encapsulant sheet suitable for encapsulating a light-emitting element in, for example, a self-luminous display or for direct backlights. The encapsulant sheet is a single-layer or multi-layer resin sheet that includes an adhesive layer exposed at a topmost surface. The Vicat softening point is greater than 60° C. and no higher than 100° C. The melt viscosity of the encapsulant sheet, at a shear velocity of 2.43×10 sec.sup.−1 and measured at a temperature of 120° C. is at least 5.0×10.sup.4 poise and no more than 1.0×10.sup.5 poise. The adhesive layer contains a polyolefin and a silane component, and a content of the silane component relative to the resin component of the adhesive layer is at least 0.03% by mass and less than 10% by mass.

A self-adhesive edge-protection tape is intended to improve the protective effect for glass edges. This is achieved by providing an adhesive tape which comprises, in sequence directed towards the substrate to be covered, a backing layer (hard phase) and a soft phase comprising a polymer foam, a viscoelastic composition and/or an elastomeric composition, where the thickness of the hard phase is ≦150 μm, the thickness of the soft phase is ≧200 μm and the ratio of the thickness of the soft phase to the thickness of the hard phase is ≧4. The invention also relates to a solar module which comprises an adhesive tape according to the invention adhesive-bonded around at least one portion of the edges thereof, and the use of the claimed adhesive tape for the protection of edges of a solar module.

Adhesives comprising: a) 35-85 weight percent of a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising: i) a polymer selected from rubbers and polyacrylate polymers and ii) optionally one or more tackifiers; and dispersed therein b) 15-50 weight percent fire retardant (FR) particles comprising one or more phosphorus-containing compounds selected from organophosphine oxides and organophosphi-nates. In some embodiments, the phosphorus-containing compounds comprise 35-65 weight percent of an organophosphine oxide and 65-35 weight percent of an organophosphinate. The FR particles may have a D50 particle size of 1-120 micrometers, 40-120 micrometers, or 70-120 micrometers. Adhesive films comprising the adhesives described herein may be free-standing adhesive films or adhesive layers comprised in tapes.

Modified thermoplastic hydrocarbon thermoplastic resins are provided, as well as methods of their manufacture and uses thereof in rubber compositions. The modified thermoplastic resins are modified by decreasing the relative quantity of the dimer, trimer, tetramer, and pentamer oligomers as compared to the corresponding unmodified thermoplastic resin polymers, resulting in a product that exhibits a greater shift in the glass transition temperature of the elastomer(s) used in tire formulations. This translates to better viscoelastic predictors of tire tread performance, such as wet grip and rolling resistance. The modified thermoplastic resins impart remarkable properties on various rubber compositions, such as tires, belts, hoses, brakes, and the like. Automobile tires incorporating the modified thermoplastic resins are shown to possess excellent results in balancing the properties of rolling resistance, tire wear, snow performance, and wet braking performance.