Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) compositions, methods for producing TPU compositions, methods of using TPU compositions, and apparatuses produced therefrom are disclosed. Disclosed TPU compositions include a thermoplastic polyurethane polymer, a heat stabilizer, a flow agent, and a filler material. The filler may be a glass fiber. Disclosed TPU compositions have improved thermal stability and improved flow properties suitable for injection molding of articles of manufacture having a large plurality of fine openings or pores. Articles produced from the composition have superior thermal stability, abrasion resistance, and chemical resistance. Example articles include screening members for vibratory screening machines. Further embodiments include compositions without heat stabilizers, flow agents, and filler materials, and compositions in which two TPU materials having different harnesses are combined to generate a material with a pre-determined hardness. Injection molded screen elements having openings from 25 to 150 microns and open screening area from 10% to 35% are disclosed.

The present application relates to a supercritical fluid injection foaming polylactide foam material and a preparation method therefor. The method includes: first obtaining a surface-modified cellulose nanofiber aqueous solution; then melting and blending the cellulose nanofiber aqueous solution and a polylactide twice; passing same through extrusion, cooling under water, and granulation so as to obtain a polylactide/cellulose nanofiber composite material; then plasticizing and melting the polylactide/cellulose nanofiber composite material in a microporous foaming injection molding machine; uniformly mixing same with a supercritical fluid foaming agent in the injection molding machine; injecting same into a mold cavity; and subjecting the resultant to post-treatment so as to obtain a polylactide foam material. The polylactide foam material has a sandwich structure, in which two outer surface layers are solid layers that do not contain any foam, and the sandwiched layer is a foam layer having a cellular structure.

The present application relates to a supercritical fluid injection foaming polylactide foam material and a preparation method therefor. The method includes: first obtaining a surface-modified cellulose nanofiber aqueous solution; then melting and blending the cellulose nanofiber aqueous solution and a polylactide twice; passing same through extrusion, cooling under water, and granulation so as to obtain a polylactide/cellulose nanofiber composite material; then plasticizing and melting the polylactide/cellulose nanofiber composite material in a microporous foaming injection molding machine; uniformly mixing same with a supercritical fluid foaming agent in the injection molding machine; injecting same into a mold cavity; and subjecting the resultant to post-treatment so as to obtain a polylactide foam material. The polylactide foam material has a sandwich structure, in which two outer surface layers are solid layers that do not contain any foam, and the sandwiched layer is a foam layer having a cellular structure.

A powder with a volume-weighted particle size distribution, with a median diameter D50 ranging from 40 to 120 micrometers, including at least one polyaryl ether ketone and at least one filler, in which: said at least one polyaryl ether ketone forms a matrix incorporating, at least partly, said at least one filler, and said filler has a Stokes equivalent spherical diameter distribution with a median diameter d′50 of less than or equal to 5 micrometers. Also a powder manufacturing process and the use thereof in a process for the layer-by-layer construction of objects by electromagnetic radiation-mediated sintering.

Apparatus for mixing polymer, the apparatus comprising (i) a mixer housing including an internal chamber, said internal chamber having first and second sections in fluid communication with each other through a passageway; (ii) a first ram received in said first section; and (iii) a second ram received in said second section, where the apparatus is adapted to receive a composition including polymer within said internal chamber and move said composition between said first and second chambers through said passageway by operation of said first and second rams.

The present invention provides a maleimide-based copolymer, a method for producing same, and a resin composition obtained using same. This maleimide-based copolymer contains 40-60 mass % of aromatic vinyl monomer units, 5-20 mass % of vinyl cyanide monomer units, and 35-50 mass % of maleimide monomer units, and is such that a 4 mass % tetrahydrofuran solution of the copolymer has a transmittance of 90% or more for light having a wavelength of 450 nm at an optical path length of 10 mm, and the residual maleimide-based monomer amount is less than 300 ppm. This maleimide-based copolymer preferably further contains 0-10 mass % of unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride monomer units, and preferably has a glass transition temperature of 165° C. or higher.

The invention generally relates to a method of making a plastic aggregate, and its use to make concrete products. The aggregate is formed by providing a granulated waste plastic material, introducing the granulated waste plastic material into an extruder having a die, the die having a ratio of die nozzle open area to die land area of about 1:10 to about 1:40, and extruding the granulated waste plastic material through the extruder to generate an extruded plastic aggregate. The method can include the presence of controlled cooling, the addition of additives and treatment of the surface of the aggregate to produce a desired aggregate that can be used to make a concrete product with desired properties, such as compressive strength and weight.

Expandable, blowing agent-containing pellets based on high temperature thermoplastics having a glass transition temperature according to ISO 11357-2-1999 of at least 180° C., wherein the expandable, blowing agent-containing pellets comprise at least one nucleating agent and have a poured density according to DIN ISO 697:1982 in the range from 400 to 900 kg/m.sup.3 and a mass in the range from 1 to 5 mg/pellet, processes for production thereof and foam particles obtainable therefrom having a glass transition temperature according to ISO 11357-2-1999 of at least 180° C., wherein the expanded foam particles comprise at least one nucleating agent and have a poured density according to DIN ISO 697:1982 in the range from 10 to 200 kg/m.sup.3, and particle foams obtainable therefrom and the use thereof for producing components for aviation.

A curable composition for mechanical foaming has a complex viscosity η* that satisfies the following conditions (A) and (B) in frequency dependence measurement by a rheometer: condition (A): η* at 0.1 Hz and 25° C. is in a range of 1000 to 50000 Pa.Math.s; and condition (B): η* at 10.0 Hz and 25° C. is in a range of 100 to 1000 Pa.Math.s.
The curing form of the curable composition for mechanical foaming is not a moisture curing form.

A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention comprises: about 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin; about 10 to about 40 parts by weight of a polyester resin; about 0.1 to about 1.0 parts by weight of a chain extender; about 50 to about 80 parts by weight of glass fibers; about 10 to about 25 parts by weight of a phosphorus flame retardant; and about 1 to about 7 parts by weight of a modified polyolefin, wherein the weight ratio of the polyester resin and the chain extender is about 1:0.01 to about 1:0.06. The thermoplastic resin composition is excellent in dimensional stability, flame retardancy, impact resistance, and the like.