According to one embodiment, an extruder screw includes a screw body. The screw body is rotated about an axis parallel to a direction of conveyance of a raw material. A conveyance portion having a flight is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the screw body. The flight is configured to convey the raw material along the axis of the screw body when the screw body is rotated. A passage for permitting the raw material fed by the flight to pass therethrough to the outer peripheral surface of the screw body is provided in the screw body in a position deviated from the axis of the screw body.

The present invention consists in a method and a composition for obtaining films of a thermoplastic polymer, preferably polyethylene, that are non-breathable and heavily charged with treated mineral particles in order to leave hollow spaces in the structure thereof, resulting in a significant reduction in density.

Owing to the fact that said films exhibit improved stability to the stresses they undergo during processing in diaper-production machines, and because, furthermore, they offer an important saving in terms of costs owing to the high mineral-filler content thereof and the low density thereof, they are especially suited to use as an outer covering for disposable diapers and sanitary towels.

A layer, sheet or film containing one or more flake-form effect pigments and one or more light scattering centers, methods for its preparation, its use for any type of device collecting solar cell energy, including but not limited to coloring solar cells or solar cell modules, and devices collecting solar cell energy, including but not limited to colored solar cells or colored solar cell modules, comprising such a layer, sheet or film, and methods for their preparation.

A method of manufacturing a film including cavities and formed from a polymer in which a cavitating agent is dispersed, the method including a step of extruding the polymer through an extrusion die equipped with adjustment actuators for adjusting thickness of the extruded film, and a step of stretching the film, as well as establishing a mapping function of the film on the basis of mass-per-unit-area profiles of the film before and after the stretching step, establishing a stretch profile of the film as stretched on the basis of the mapping function and of said transverse mass-per-unit-area profiles, and establishing a characteristic transverse profile that is characteristic of the film on the basis of the stretch profile and of a transverse profile of the concentration by mass of cavitating agent in the film as stretched that makes it possible to take into account the distribution of the cavities in the film; in which method the adjustment actuators are controlled as a function of said characteristic transverse profile.

Compositions and methods of preparing amorphous drug formulations through hot melt extrusion which result in decreased decomposition of the desired drug are provided herein. Also provided are methods and compositions which further comprise a pharmaceutically acceptable thermoplastic polymer. In some embodiments, these compositions comprise a therapeutically active agent which is only sparingly soluble in water.

A radiation shielding composite comprising a first component including a copolymer including unconjugated olefin-derived units, vinyl aromatic-derived units, and conjugated diene-derived units; and a second component including a radiation-shielding metal.

A secure element has a card-type body made of a plurality of layers, arranged one above the other and generated by coextrusion. The secure element includes a first layer as the base layer made of a first material having a base polymer, wherein a first color is homogenously distributed in the first layer as the main color of the body. The secure element includes at least one second layer, as the colored layer made of a second material that has a carrier polymer. The base polymer and the carrier polymer have different material properties with randomized polychromatism visible in plan view and in cross section. The at least one second layer forms, together with the first layer in the card body in a random distribution, colored surface regions, which are dominated in part by the color of the first layer and in part by the color of the second layer.

A halogen-free modified high-filling recyclable plastic board is provided in this disclosure, which includes a substrate layer and a printed layer and a protective layer disposed sequentially on the substrate layer from bottom to top. Raw materials of the substrate layer include, by weight in percent, 20 to 25% of PEAT resin, 70 to 75% of stone powder, 0.5 to 0.8% of chain extender, 1 to 2% of white mineral oil, 3 to 6% PE, and 0.4 to 0.8% stearic acid. The plastic board according to the present disclosure is formed using a hot press process, without glue bonding and with good integrity; and the manufactured board is large in surface tension, its surface is easy to be processed and a substrate layer thereof has good compatibility with a printed layer and a protective layer, which can be recycled as a whole.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are drawn to additive manufacturing apparatus and methods. An exemplary additive manufacturing system may include an extruder, the extruder having an opening dimensioned to receive a material. The apparatus may also include an extruder output in fluid communication with the extruder, wherein the extruder output extends away from the extruder along a longitudinal axis. One or more heaters positioned along at least a portion of the extruder output may also be included, and, as the material passes through the extruder output, the one or more heaters may at least partially melt the material. The system may also include a gear pump in fluid communication with the extruder output for receiving the at least partially melted material, and a nozzle in fluid communication with the gear pump for depositing the at least partially melted material.

A halogen-free modified high-filling recyclable plastic board is provided in this disclosure, which includes a substrate layer and a printed layer and a protective layer disposed sequentially on the substrate layer from bottom to top. Raw materials of the substrate layer include, by weight in percent, 20 to 25% of PEAT resin, 70 to 75% of stone powder, 0.5 to 0.8% of chain extender, 1 to 2% of white mineral oil, 3 to 6% PE, and 0.4 to 0.8% stearic acid. The plastic board according to the present disclosure is formed using a hot press process, without glue bonding and with good integrity; and the manufactured board is large in surface tension, its surface is easy to be processed and a substrate layer thereof has good compatibility with a printed layer and a protective layer, which can be recycled as a whole.