The invention describes the use of magnetic platelet particles as a multifunctional additive to various formulations of polyolefin plastic films usable to fabricate packaging and to provide said packaging with similar barrier properties as aluminium metallizations or other gas barriers, with the added benefit of allowing separation and recovery of the packaging by magnetic means. Such novel additives, films and packaging are environmentally friendly and food-safe, so that after use they can be either recovered for reuse, composted, or dumped in the environment to biodegrade. The invention comprises various types of films comprising the additive and methods to improve the properties of said films.

A novel, advanced polymeric swab is disclosed herein. The swabs have a surface texture that allows for independent motion between microscale regions, are reusable with no loss of accuracy or efficiency, and are fabricated from optoelectronically-active elements to minimize static charging during repeated use.

A modeling apparatus is configured to laminate a modeling material to model a three-dimensional modeled object. The modeling apparatus includes a local heating unit, a local cooling unit, and an annealing unit. The local heating unit is configured to locally heat the modeling material during lamination of the modeling material is being laminated. The local cooling unit is configured to locally cool the modeling material during the lamination. The annealing unit is configured to anneal the resultant three-dimensional modeled object at a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.

An electroconductive film including a substrate film, and an organic electroconductive layer disposed on the substrate film, wherein the substrate film is formed of a resin containing an alicyclic structure-containing polymer having crystallizability, a thickness of the substrate film is 5 m or more and 50 m or less, and a crystallization degree of the alicyclic structure-containing polymer having crystallizability is 30% or more. The alicyclic structure-containing polymer having crystallizability is preferably a hydrogenated product of a ring-opening polymer of dicyclopentadiene.

The present invention relates to a process for continuous production of partly crystalline polycondensate pellet material, comprising the steps of forming a polycondensate melt into pellet material; separating the liquid cooling medium from the pellet material in a first treatment space, wherein the pellets after exit from the first treatment space exhibit a temperature T.sub.GR, and crystallizing the pellet material in a second treatment space, wherein in the second treatment space fluidized bed conditions exist, and in the second treatment space the pellets are heated by supply of energy from the exterior by means of a process gas.

A crystallized bioabsorbable polymer scaffold comprises a polymer composition of poly (L-lactide-co-tri-methylene-carbonate) or poly (D-lactide-co-tri-methylene-carbonate) or poly (L-lactide-co--caprolactone) or poly (D-lactide-co--caprolactone) in the form of block copolymers of blocky copolymers, wherein the scaffold is cold-bendable.

The present invention relates to a sheet comprising polyester, the sheet comprising at least one area (a) wherein the area (a) comprises at least one groove having a depth of >50% with regard to the thickness of the sheet in the area (a), wherein the sheet has a thickness of 200-1000 m in the area (a). Such sheet provides the ability to snap along the grooves in a predictable manner, whilst providing sufficient rigidity to avoid undesired bending under the influence of its own weight.

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for making thermoplastic resin materials and composite resin systems and materials made from the thermoplastic resins, by seeding one melted thermoplastic material with a second thermoplastic material in a crystalline state that comprises an amount of ferromagnetic material.

A part including polyetherketoneketone, in which the polyetherketoneketone is at least partially crystalline and in which at least 50% by weight of the crystalline polyetherketoneketone is of form 1. Also a process for the manufacture of such a part, the process including the provision of polyetherketoneketone; the shaping of the polyetherketoneketone and the at least partial crystallization of the polyetherketoneketone in the form 1.

A method for the crystallization of a film made of a thermoplastic film material, in particular a CPET material, to form a product in which a crystallization process is initiated by shaping the thermoplastic film material within a molding tool. A main crystallization of the crystallization process is carried on outside of the molding tool.