A non-crosslinked polymeric heat shrink tubing including poly(ether-block-amide) (PEBA) and methods for making such non-crosslinked polymeric heat shrink tubing is provided. The non-crosslinked PEBA heat shrink tubing disclosed herein finds application, e.g., as a processing aid and final component in the manufacture of catheters and other medical devices.

Methods and systems for making a film made of dynamically vulcanized thermoplastic elastomeric material are provided herein. The subject methods and systems achieve dimensional stability of an elastic film by applying thermal treatment as part of the film making process and enhance the shrinkage of the film by intentionally with stretching the film while hot and freezing the film in the stretch. The systems and methods are useful in controlling shrinkage of DVA post film extrusion.

Shrink films made from metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene polymers and processes for making the same are disclosed.

An embodiment of heat-shrinkable tubing capable of providing the strength characteristics of known heat-shrinkable tubing embodiments while maintaining a low peel force for easy removal from a shaft or other solid body during extrusion and expansion manufacturing.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a tube which is formed from a fluororesin and has excellent tearability and inner surface smoothness. A tube formed from a fluororesin according to the present invention is tearable in the longitudinal direction, and is formed from one thermoplastic fluororesin that is different from polytetrafluoroethylenes.

A non-crosslinked polymeric heat shrink tubing including poly (ether-block-amide) (PEBA) and methods for making such non-crosslinked polymeric heat shrink tubing is provided. The non-crosslinked PEBA heat shrink tubing disclosed herein finds application, e.g., as a processing aid and final component in the manufacture of catheters and other medical devices. When utilized as an outer jacket of a laser-cut hypotube, the non-crosslinked PEBA heat shrink tubing can advantageously not considerably infiltrate the kerfs of the underlying laser-cut hypotube.

A manufacturing method for a heat shrinkable film includes: preparing a packaging material that includes film labels having a resin layer mainly contains thermoplastic resin, and a printed layer; recovering first and second recycled raw materials from the resin layer; and forming a resin film with a core layer including the recycled raw materials and a surface layer layered onto the core layer and includes thermoplastic resin. Recovering the recycled raw materials includes: forming, into individual pieces, the packaging material and/or the resin layer from which the printed layer has been removed; and separating the printed layer from the packaging material and/or pieces of the packaging material to obtain the resin layer from which the printed layer has been removed and/or pieces of the resin layer from which the printed layer has been removed. One of the recycled raw materials is polyester-based resin, and the other is polystyrene-based resin.

Disclosed is a multilayer biaxially oriented sheet- or tube-type food casing or food packaging film comprising in order from outside to inside an outside surface layer preferably comprising polyester; a gas barrier layer preferably comprising ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer positioned so that at least 60% of the total film thickness is to the inside of the gas barrier layer with respect to a package prepared from the film; an optionally shrinkable forming layer comprising polyolefins or ethylene copolymers; and an inside surface layer comprising polyethylene homopolymer or an ethylene alkyl (meth)acrylic acid copolymer or ionomer thereof. The casing or film can be produced by a blown film process and biaxially oriented by a triple-bubble process or by cast film process and biaxially oriented by a tenter frame process.

The invention provides a heat-shrinkable polyester film which has a high heat shrinkage rate in the width direction, exhibits a low heat shrinkage rate in the longitudinal direction, and has a great mechanical strength in the longitudinal direction, good openability along perforations, and excellent shrink finish. The film has a hot-water heat shrinkage rate of 40% to 85% in the main shrinking direction and 5% to 15% in the perpendicular direction when the film is immersed in hot water at 98 C. for 10 seconds, and a maximum shrinkage stress of 2-7 MPa in the main shrinking direction when measured in hot air of 90 C. and the shrinkage stress 30 seconds after measurement of the shrinkage stress has started is of 60-100% of the maximum shrinkage stress. The film contains 6 mol % or more of diethylene glycol-derived constituent units with respect to 100 mol % of all polyester resin components.

A hose includes an outer cover layer and at least one ply disposed inward from the outer cover layer, characterized in that the outer cover layer is a shrink sleeve, and where the at least one ply is formed from a reinforced silicone rubber sheet which includes a reinforcement. The hose may further include an inner layer disposed within the at least one ply, and which defines a lumen. The shrink sleeve may be a polyolefin shrink sleeve. The layers are tensioned together with the shrink sleeve. The hose may be prepared by a shrink tension method without the use of a tape wrap. A method of preparing the above hose may include wrapping the inner layer around a mandrel, wrapping the at least one at least one ply around the inner layer, pulling the shrink sleeve over the at least one at least one ply, and vulcanizing the hose.