Provided is a thermoplastic resin film of which adhesive force can be easily adjusted to lie within an appropriate range when the thermoplastic resin film is bonded to other members such as a glass plate. A thermoplastic resin film according to the present invention includes a thermoplastic resin, and a compound represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a carboxyalkyl group, a group that is a salt of a carboxyalkyl group and alkali metal, or a group that is a salt of a carboxyalkyl group and alkaline earth metal, and at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 represents a carboxyalkyl group, a group that is a salt of a carboxyalkyl group and alkali metal, or a group that is a salt of a carboxyalkyl group and alkaline earth metal.

A polymeric film comprising a polyvinyl acetal resin a plasticizer and a blending agent containing an aliphatic ring and at least one hydroxyl group are disclosed. A laminate is also described where the polymeric film is used as the interlayer between two transparent materials such as glass. The laminate made using the polymeric film has excellent optical and impact resistance properties.

Provided is a resin composition including: a polyacetal; conductive carbon black; graphite; and a specific polyacetal decomposition inhibitor, wherein the conductive carbon black has a dibutyl phthalate oil absorption of 180 ml/100 g or less, wherein the content of the polyacetal in the resin composition is 60 mass % or more, and wherein the content of the conductive carbon black in the resin composition is 16 mass % or more and 20 mass % or less.

A polymer film comprising polyvinylacetal and a laminated glass manufactured using the same are provided. At least one surface of the polymer film has a void volume (Vv) value at a material ratio of 10% ranging from 3 m.sup.3/m.sup.2 to 34.3 m.sup.3/m.sup.2, wherein the void volume (Vv) and material ratio are defined in accordance with ISO 25178-2:2012.

The invention is directed to a method for producing an upgraded polymer product from recycled polyvinyl butyral, to a polymer product obtainable by said method, to a construction material comprising such polymer product, and to a use of an extruder vacuum pump.

The method of the invention comprises feeding a polymer feed stream to an extruder, wherein said polymer feed stream comprises a recycled polyvinyl butyral; melting said polymer feed stream in the extruder to produce polymer melt and passing said polymer melt through one or more degassing zones connected to a vacuum pump; measuring the melt flow index of the polymer product,
wherein the vacuum pump is operated at a pressure that is controlled by the measured melt flow index of the polymer product.

A film is described comprising a (meth)acrylic polymer and a polyvinyl acetal (e.g. butyral) resin. In some embodiments, the film has a glass transition temperature (i.e. Tg) ranging from 30 C. to 60 C. In some embodiments, the film has a gel content of at least 20% or greater. In some embodiments, the film has an elongation at break of at least 175%. The film typically comprises photoinitiator as a result of the method by which the film was made. The film may be a monolithic film or a layer of a multilayer film.

Provided is an adhesive as follows. The adhesive can bond/secure an adherend to a support with maintaining high adhesiveness during the existence of the need for securing of the adherend to the support, even in a high-temperature environment or in an environment with abrupt temperature change. The adhesive enables debonding of the adherend from the support without breakage of the adherend when the securing becomes unnecessary. The adhesive can be easily removed when remained on the adherend after debonding. The adhesive according to the present invention contains (A) a multivalent vinyl ether compound, (B) a compound including two or more of a constitutional unit represented by Formula (b), and (C) a thermoplastic resin. In the formula, X is selected from hydroxy and carboxy. ##STR00001##

A film for laminating glass includes a polyvinyl acetal, a plasticizer, inorganic particles, and a trioxane-based compound.

Provided is a thermoplastic resin film with which a glass plate-including laminate that looks different in color tone depending on the direction or angle can be obtained. A thermoplastic resin film according to the present invention includes a thermoplastic resin and a pigment, and when the thermoplastic resin film is planarly viewed with a transmission electron microscope, a number of pigments having an aspect ratio of 3 or more and 50 or less is 3 or more and 100 or less in a rectangular region of 13 m long and 18 m wide.

Plasiticized polyvinylacetal films with greater film-to-film uniformity are produced by a process of extruding a melt stream containing a polyvinyl acetal and a plasticizer at 150-250 C., the film having a predefined melt viscosity at 60-170 C., by providing a first melt stream of at least a first plasticizer and a first polyvinyl acetal resin and measuring its melt viscosity at 60-170 C. online; and adjusting the 60-170 C. melt viscosity by adding a second plasticizer and/or a second polyvinyl acetal resin to the first melt stream in an amount to provide a second melt stream with a melt viscosity at 60-170 C. having a difference of at most 20% to the predefined melt viscosity at 60-170 C.