A hot melt adhesive material and articles made using the hot melt adhesive to assemble structures in an article. The adhesive material typically is manufactured by blending amorphous polymer with a heterophase polymer having crystallinity into an adhesive composition.

A hot melt adhesive material and articles made using the hot melt adhesive to assemble structures in an article. The adhesive material typically is manufactured by blending amorphous polymer with a heterophase polymer having crystallinity into an adhesive composition.

The invention provides articles and methods for making such articles including a substrate coated on at least one region thereof with a layer of nanocomposites nano-cellulose materials and nanoparticles.

Stretchable elastic laminates having an improved cloth-like appearance, as well as methods of preparing the laminates, are disclosed herein. Particularly, the present disclosure is directed to methods of preparing tissue-elastic laminates with uniform tissue fractures as the laminate is stretched 50%, or even 100%, or more in at least one of the machine direction (MD) or cross direction (CD).

The present invention relates to a biaxially stretched article obtained by stretching a thermoplastic composition in a machine direction and a transverse direction at elevated temperature, said thermoplastic composition comprising a polyolefin phase containing at least one polyolefin, a starch phase containing thermoplastic starch, and at least one compatibiliser, wherein the article has a layered morphology with alternating layers of starch phase and polyolefin phase, said layers of starch phase and polyolefin phase extending in machine direction and transverse direction.

A hot melt adhesive material and articles made using the hot melt adhesive to assemble structures in an article. The adhesive material typically is manufactured by blending amorphous polymer with a heterophase polymer having crystallinity into an adhesive composition.

There is provided a multilayer film comprising a starch layer and at least one other layer. The multilayer film has excellent barrier properties. The starch layer comprises a modified starch having a degree of substitution less than 1.5. Suitable other layers include polyolefins. The multilayer film finds use in packaging, particularly in packaging foodstuffs.

The invention relates to a method for producing a coated packaging material (10), wherein at least the following steps are carried out: a) providing a substrate (12), which has a base material (14) made of cellulose, an outside (16) to face away from a good to be packaged, and an inside (18) to face the good to be packaged; b) coating the inside (18) of the substrate with at least one layer of an aqueous composition, which comprises at least polyvinyl alcohol and a cross-linking agent and has a solid content of at most 25 wt %; and c) drying the layer and cross-linking the polyvinyl alcohol by means of the cross-linking agent in order to form a barrier layer (22a, 22b) for hydrophobic compounds. The invention further relates to a packaging material (10) having at least one barrier layer (22a, 22b) for hydrophobic compounds.

An environmentally-friendly composite foil that includes a first biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film comprising a moisture barrier coating; a second biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film comprising a thin metallized surface, disposed adjacent to the first biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film, having a bio-adhesive disposed between the first biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film and the second biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film; and a third biocompostable and/or biorenewable film comprising a sugar and/or a corn-based film, disposed adjacent to the biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based second film.

The invention provides articles and methods for making such articles including a substrate coated on at least one region thereof with a layer of nanocomposites nano-cellulose materials and nanoparticles.