The present application provides a calender, a floor production line and a production method using the calender, wherein the calender comprises a calendering roller rack and a set of calendering rollers arranged on the calendering roller rack. The set of calendering rollers comprises a plurality of calendering rollers arranged in a line and not vertically. The present application changes the arrangement of the calendering rollers. The calendering rollers are arranged in a line, not vertically. This arrangement reduces the overall height of the calender, decreases the requirements of the calender on the height of the factory building and facilitates long-distance transportation by containers. Using the calender to assemble the floor production line, the height space of the factory building occupied by the production line can be saved.

The present disclosure is directed to a film formulation that resulted in a substantially non-migratory cold seal release film with improved blocking resistance. Specifically, the multilayered biaxially oriented polypropylene film can include a core layer of polypropylene homopolymer; a first outer layer on one side of the core layer that can be suitable for sealing, printing, or coating; and a second outer layer on the opposite side of the core layer that is a blocking resistant layer comprising thermoplastic polymers which reduce blocking tendency.

Disclosed is a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) film capable of being laminated by heat sealing on a metal. The PET film is a coextruded PET film including an intermediate layer, and a surface layer and a heat seal layer bound to respective sides of the intermediate layer, the heat seal layer including 100 parts by weight of a PET resin modified simultaneously with 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol, 1,3-propanediol, and 1,4-butanediol, and 10 to 50 parts by weight of a PET resin modified with isophthalic acid.

Multilayer composite materials are described herein. The multilayer composite materials have a first layer comprising a first polymer and a second layer comprising a second polymer. The first layer and the second layer abut each other. The first layer and the second layer each have a thickness in a range of about 10 nm to about 1 mm. The first layer and the second layer are arranged to provide for the multilayer composite material to have reduced dripping and a delayed first dripping time as they undergo a combustion process relative to a single layer material having a same thickness as a thickness of the multilayer composite materials.

Silicon particles for active materials and electro-chemical cells are provided. The active materials comprising silicon particles described herein can be utilized as an electrode material for a battery. In certain embodiments, the composite material includes greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of silicon particles. The silicon particles have an average particle size between about 0.1 μm and about 30 μm and a surface including nanometer-sized features. The composite material also includes greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of one or more types of carbon phases. At least one of the one or more types of carbon phases is a substantially continuous phase.

Silicon particles for active materials and electro-chemical cells are provided. The active materials comprising silicon particles described herein can be utilized as an electrode material for a battery. In certain embodiments, the composite material includes greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of silicon particles. The silicon particles have an average particle size between about 0.1 μm and about 30 μm and a surface including nanometer-sized features. The composite material also includes greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of one or more types of carbon phases. At least one of the one or more types of carbon phases is a substantially continuous phase.

Provided is a heat-shrinkable polyester film which has heat shrinkage properties in a main shrinkage direction in the longitudinal direction, a small variation in shrinkage in the width direction, and less likely generated wrinkles and strains at the time of shrinkage finishing. The polyester film is prepared from a polyester raw material resin comprising 50 mol % or more of an ethylene terephthalate unit in 100 mol % of constituent units of a polyester, diol components selected from aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic diols, and an amorphous monomer component that is 2% or more in 100 mol % of either a polyhydric alcohol component or a polybasic carboxylic acid component in the whole polyester resin, wherein the polyester does not contain polybasic carboxylic acids of tribasic or more, and the polyester film is obtained by uniaxial drawing in the longitudinal direction.

The present invention relates to an external cooling system for a molten film tube produced by a blown film tubular extrusion process. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a unidirectional cooling element having a unidirectional cooling interface containing a cooling gas deflector spaced adjacent to the molten film tube. The unidirectional cooling element operably expels cooling gas in a path with the flow of the molten film tube toward an exit gap formed between the unidirectional cooling interface and the molten film tube. The minimum gap between the unidirectional cooling interface and the molten film tube occurs at the exit gap, and advantageously, the unidirectional cooling interface is provided with one or more compound angles to maximize stability and cooling efficiency.

A method for pinning the edges of an extruded polymeric mass and an edge-pinning group are described.

Provided is a polyester film for foldable displays that is unlikely to have cracks in the folding portion with the aim of providing a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability, and that does not have image distortion that may appear in the folding portion after the display is repeatedly folded. The polyester film has a thickness of 10 to 80 μm, a refractive index in the bending direction of 1.590 to 1.620, a refractive index in the direction of a folding portion of 1.670 to 1.700, a refractive index in the thickness direction of 1.520 or less, and a density of 1.380 g/cm.sup.3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to the folding portion of the polyester film to be folded.