A machine direction oriented film comprising a multimodal copolymer of ethylene and at least two alpha-olefin-comonomers having: a) a density of from 906 to 925 kg/m.sup.3 determined according to ISO 1183, b) an MFR.sub.21 of 10-200 g/10 min determined according to ISO1133, wherein the multimodal copolymer of ethylene comprises c) a first copolymer of ethylene and a first alpha-olefin comonomer having 4 to 10 carbon atoms; and d) a second copolymer of ethylene having an alpha-olefin comonomer different from the first copolymer, said second alpha-olefin comonomer having 6 to 10 carbon atoms.

The present invention provides a morphology modified heterophase polymer having No-Break impact strength in the range of 500 J/m-700 J/m as per ASTM standard D256, a high melt flow index in the range of 100 g/10 min as per ASTM D1238, and a balanced flexural modulus as per ASTM standard D790. More particularly, the present invention relates to a process for the modification of morphology of heterophase propylene polymer in the presence of an initiator in the form of organic peroxide and a multifunctional unsaturated organic vinyl compound on the ex-reactor Heterophase Propylene Copolymer powder and/or pellet using special extrusion device.

The present invention provides a polyolefin composition, said composition comprising a terpolymer comprising a cross-linkable polyolefin comprising hydrolysable silane groups and a polar comonomer, the polyolefin composition further comprising a cross-linking catalyst and a silicon containing compound. The polar comonomer Is present in an amount of 5-35 wt %.

This disclosure relates to ethylene interpolymer compositions. Specifically, ethylene interpolymer products having: a Dilution Index (Y.sub.d) greater than 0; total catalytic metal 3.0 ppm; 0.03 terminal vinyl unsaturations per 100 carbon atoms, and; optionally a Dimensionless Modulus (X.sub.d) greater than 0. The disclosed ethylene interpolymer products have a melt index from about 0.3 to about 500 dg/minute, a density from about 0.869 to about 0.975 g/cm.sup.3, a polydispersity (M.sub.w/M.sub.n) from about 2 to about 25 and a CDBI.sub.50 from about 20% to about 97%. Further, the ethylene interpolymer products are a blend of at least two ethylene interpolymers; where one ethylene interpolymer is produced with a single-site catalyst formulation and at least one ethylene interpolymer is produced with a heterogeneous catalyst formulation.

A foam molded article includes a main agent resin, a filler of greater than or equal to 15% by mass and less than or equal to 80% by mass, and a foaming agent of greater than or equal to 0.01% by mass and less than or equal to 10% by mass, and a foaming ratio caused by the foaming agent is greater than or equal to 1.1 times.

The present invention relates to a resin composition containing: 100 parts by weight of a polypropylene resin; 0.2 parts by weight to 2 parts by weight of an olefinic elastomer; 2 parts by weight to 5 parts by weight of a talc having an aspect ratio in a range of 35 to 60; 2 parts by weight to 5 parts by weight of a fibrous magnesium sulfate having an average fiber diameter of 0.1 m to 2 m and an average fiber length of 8 m to 30 m; and 0.01 parts by weight to 1 part by weight of a metallic soap that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a magnesium salt of a fatty acid and an aluminum salt of a fatty acid.

The present disclosure is directed to a process for producing thermoplastic polyolefin roofing membrane. The process includes directly adding components of a high-load flame retardant TPO formulation to a counter-rotating twin screw extruder. The process includes extruding the formulation with counter-rotation of the twin screws and forming a TPO roofing membrane having a tensile strength of greater than 10 MPa and a flame retardance of rating of classification D as measured in accordance with EN ISO 11925-2, surface exposure test.

The present invention provides an olefin polymer in which LCB (long chain branch) is introduced into mLLDPE (metallocene linear low-density polyethylene) to control the storage modulus, whereby the olefin polymer has excellent bubble stability and processing load characteristics and exhibits excellent processability during preparation of a film, and further has excellent mechanical properties and transparency.

The present invention concerns a multi-layer film comprising at least five layers, with two outer layers, two intermediate layers and one core layer, wherein the core layer comprises an ethylene copolymer having a density between 0.910 g/cm3 and 0.925 g/cm3, the intermediate layers comprise an ethylene copolymer comprising 1-octene and having a density between >0.915 g/cm3 and 0.925 g/cm.sup.3, wherein further the first outer layer comprises between 65 wt. % and 93 wt. % of a first ethylene copolymer comprising 1-octene and having a density between >0.915 g/cm3 and 0.925 g/cm.sup.3 and between 7 wt. % and 35 wt. % of a second ethylene copolymer having a density between >0.925 g/cm.sup.3 and 0.945 g/cm3 based on the total weight of polymers of the layer, wherein further the second outer layer comprises between 35 wt. % and 65 wt. % of a first ethylene copolymer comprising 1-octene and having a density between >0.915 g/cm.sup.3 and 0.925 g/cm.sup.3 and between 35 wt. % and 65 wt. % of a second ethylene copolymer having a density between 0.850 g/cm.sup.3 and <0.915 g/cm.sup.3 based on the total weight of the polymers of the layer.

Thermoplastic moulding composition consisting of (A) 51 to 69.9 wt % of polyamide elastomer; (B) 15 to 38 wt % of ethylene--olefin copolymer; (C) 3 to 25 wt % of polyamide selected from the group consisting of: PA6, PA66, PA6/66, PA610, PA612, PA614, PA616, PA6/610, PA66/610 or mixtures thereof; (D) 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of heat stabilizers based on copper and/or iodide, organic stabilizers or a mixture thereof; (E) 0 to 5.0 wt % of additives, different from (A) to (D);
where the sum of (A) to (E) makes 100 wt % of the total moulding composition, and with the proviso that the sum of (B) and (C) is in the range from 30 to 48 wt % based on the total moulding composition.