Exemplary barrier additive compositions have useful barrier properties. An exemplary barrier additive composition includes a nylon 6, a compatibilizer including maleic anhydride grafted polyethylene or polypropylene, and an optional optical tracer. The barrier additive composition can be used in containers for liquid chemicals, such as petroleum derived products. Also disclosed are polymer blends and films that include the barrier additive composition, methods of making the barrier additive composition, and methods of making containers and films that include the barrier additive composition.

The present disclosure provides a multilayer film comprising a resin composition layer containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer with an ethylene unit content of 20 mol% or more and 60 mol% or less and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer with an ethylene unit content being more than the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, and a thermoplastic resin layer.

A composite preform including a preform and a plastic member in close contact with the outer surface of the preform is made by preparing the preform made of plastic material and arranging the plastic member to surround the outer surface of the preform. Subsequently, the composite preform is heated and inserted in a blow molding die and undergoes blow molding in the blow molding die, by which the preform and the plastic member of the composite preform are inflated integrally and a composite container is obtained.

Provided herein are liners, for example, for storing or dispensing high purity chemicals, as well as methods of manufacturing such liners. The liners resist formation of stress-induced breaches. In one aspect, the liner includes a film formed into a liner capable of retaining a liquid. The liner has a first barrier layer to a gas (e.g., oxygen); a second barrier layer to the gas (e.g., oxygen); and at least one additional layer of material disposed interstitially between the first barrier layer and the second barrier layers.

A container including a finish, a body, and a base. The finish includes a top sealing surface, threads, and a support flange. The top sealing surface includes only a base layer. The body and the base each include an inner portion made of the base layer, an outer portion made of the base layer, and an oxygen barrier layer between the inner portion and the outer portion.

An apparatus including a co-extrusion device for extruding a multi-layer structure having at least one primary layer and at least one secondary layer, so that the multi-layer structure leaves the co-extrusion device along an exit direction; a mould provided with a pair of elements, at least one of the elements being movable towards the other in a moulding direction, so as to compression mould an object from a multi-layer dose which was severed from the multi-layer structure; a transport device for carrying the dose towards the mould; an arrangement for modifying orientation of the dose while the dose is being transported by the transport device, so that the dose is introduced into the mould with an orientation in which the secondary layer extends transversely to the moulding direction.

A method for producing a thermoformed product on a single machine with several stations and with different tools includes the following steps: (a) melting and homogenizing plastic granules and providing the plastic melt at a preform station; (b) producing a preform at the preform station in a preform cavity; (c) transferring the preform by a transfer carrier to a thermoforming station at the same machine, the thermoforming station having a thermoforming tool having a thermoforming cavity; (d) preferably heating the preform during the transfer; (e) thermoforming of the thermoformed product in the thermoforming cavity. Advantageously, the final thermoformed product is produced directly from the plastic granules using only a single machine, and in particular without any waste, when the preform is dimensioned in such a way that it does not present any excess with respect to the final shape of the product to be produced.

A transparent multilayer coextruded heat shrinkable barrier film is useful for high-value packaging applications such as food and medical device packaging. The transparent multilayer coextruded heat shrinkable barrier film includes first and second outer layers formed using a transparent polyester or polyester copolymer; an inner nanolayer sequence including a plurality of nanolayers a) including ethylene vinyl alcohol, alternating with nanolayers b) including at least one of ethylene ethyl acrylate, low density polyethylene and linear low density polyethylene, each of the nanolayers b) having a degree of crystallinity less than about 45%; and adhesive layers between each of the two outer layers and the inner nanolayer sequence. The film has a light transmittance of at least about 80% and a heat shrunk of at least about ten percent in at least one direction.

The invention provides a polyamide resin composition (1) containing a polyamide (A) and a free volume modifier (B), and having a free volume, as measured according to a positron annihilation method, of 0.0545 nm.sup.3 or less. The invention also provides a polyamide resin composition (2) prepared by adding from 0.005 to 1.200 parts by mass of a polysilsesquioxane (B) whose main chain is comprised of siloxane bonds, to 100 parts by mass of a polyamide (A) that contains a diamine unit including an aromatic diamine unit represented by the following general formula (I) in an amount of 70 mol % or more and a dicarboxylic acid unit including at least one of a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid unit represented by the following general formula (II-1) and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid unit represented by the following general formula (II-2) in a total amount of 50 mol % or more: ##STR00001##
wherein n in the general formula (II-1) indicates an integer of from 2 to 18, and Ar in the general formula (II-2) represents an arylene group.

To solve the above problem, a pouch forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a die in which a forming space is recessed inward from a top surface thereof; a partition wall partitioning the forming space into first and second forming spaces; a stripper disposed above the die and configured to descend to contact the die with the pouch film therebetween to fix the pouch film to be seated on a top surface of the die; and an electromagnetic force generation part disposed above the forming space and configured to generate electromagnetic force and configured to apply the electromagnetic force to the forming space.