A decorative material has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface and includes a base material layer and a surface protection layer disposed closer to the first surface than the base material layer is. The base material layer has a plurality of grooves in a surface thereof closer to the first surface, and at least a subset of the grooves has a filled portion therein. The average specular glossiness at 85? of the first surface pursuant to JIS Z8741:1997 is 18% or less, and the standard deviation ? of the specular glossiness at 85? of the first surface pursuant to JIS Z8741:1997 is 1.0% or more.

A multilayer film includes: a surface layer composed of a resin composition containing vinylidene fluoride-based resin and methacrylic acid ester-based resin; and a back layer laminated on the surface layer composed of a resin composition containing vinylidene fluoride-based resin and methacrylic acid ester-based resin, and further containing fine particles with a particle diameter of 0.2 ?m or more; wherein an average particle diameter of the fine particles is less than 1.0 ?m, a number of convex portions existing on an outer surface of the back layer having a height of 0.2 ?m or more relative to an average surface that is counted using a white interferometer is 400 or less per area of 697 ?m?539 ?m, and a number of convex portions having a height of 1.0 ?m or more is 10 or less per area of 697 ?m?539 ?m.

A resin film that has both high transparency and excellent blocking resistance including crosslinked (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin particles includes methacrylic acid ester-based resin as a main component, wherein the crosslinked (meth)acrylic acid-based resin particles have an average particle diameter of 1% or more and 10% or less with respect to an average thickness of the film, wherein the film does not include vinylidene fluoride-based resin, wherein a haze of the film measured based on JIS K7136: 2000 is 5% or less, and wherein a clarity (CLR) of the film is 97% or more.

This invention discloses a preparation method for precious metal switching contact components by means of plating masking, plating and etching processes. The plating masking process is performed by using a plating mask ink with or without a photo exposure machine. Plating of precious metals is performed by electroless plating or electro plating methods. Etching is carried out with etching solutions containing weak organic acids, weak inorganic acids or acidic buffering agents. Improvement of the etched surface gloss and prevention of the side etching are realized with the sulfur-contained compounds. The dust- and oil stain-resistances of the switch contacts are improved by increasing the etching depth. The switch contacts made by this invention are featured with the advantages of good reliability, good resistance to dust and oil stain, short contact bounce time, long service life, low cost of raw materials and so on.

Systems and methods relating to improved printable magnetic sheet materials compatible with high-volume roll-to-roll printing processes using roll-fed presses. When implemented, the system permits existing roll-to-roll printer to generate sheet-magnet promotional materials that are adherable to various material substrates, such as, for example, mailers, phone books, etc.

Multilayer cast films with an ethylene/-olefin copolymer core layer, and inner and outer layers containing low density polyethylene homopolymers, and multilayer cast films with an ethylene polymer core layer, and inner and outer layers containing ethylene/-olefin copolymers, are described. These cast films have a reduced tendency to block, and are useful in various food packaging applications.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a laminate having sufficient delamination prevention performance and simultaneously having an inorganic layer surface imparted with brightness. The laminate of the present invention is a laminate having a polyolefin-based resin layer, a layer for deposition and an inorganic layer in this order, wherein the layer for deposition includes a composition (P) for a layer for deposition and polypropylene (D), the composition (P) for a layer for deposition is obtained by melt-kneading 30 to 85% by weight of isotactic polypropylene (A) and 70 to 15% by weight of a propylene-based copolymer (B), a part or all of the isotactic polypropylene (A) and/or the propylene-based copolymer (B) has been graft-modified with a graft monomer (C), and the propylene-based copolymer (B) contains 45 to 89% by mol of constituent units derived from propylene and 11 to 55% by mol of constituent units derived from at least one -olefin selected from ethylene and -olefins of 4 to 20 carbon atoms.

This coated metal plate is a chromate-free coated metal plate for exterior applications, which comprises a metal plate and a coating film that is arranged on the metal plate. The coating film contains 0.01-15% by volume of porous particles as a gloss control agent. If R (?m) is the number average particle diameter of the gloss control agent, T (?m) is the film thickness of the coating film, and ? is the standard deviation of the number-based particle size distribution of the gloss control agent, the coated metal plate satisfies the following formulae. (R+2?)/T?0.7 R?2.0 9?T?19.

Multi-layer protective sheets of the invention are useful in a range of indoor and outdoor applications in, for example, the transportation, architectural and sporting goods industries. In one embodiment, a multi-layer protective sheet comprises sequential layers as follows: optionally, a topcoat layer; a carrier layer; a resilient layer; and an adhesive layer. Protective sheets of the invention are advantageously not only capable of protecting a surface, but also capable of being more cleanly removed therefrom than conventional protective sheets without resilient layers between the carrier layer and adhesive layer therein.

A polyethylene composition comprising an ethylene/-olefin copolymerized linear low density polyethylene, wherein the polyethylene composition has a Mw of from 100,000 g/mol to 200,000 g/mol, a Mw/Mn of from 4.0 to 9.0, a Mz/Mw of from 4.0 to 7.0, and a Mz+1/Mw of from 4.5 to 13.5, is provided. A film formed of the polyethylene composition is also provided.