A variety of plates for footwear are provided including a polyolefin resin. Sole structures and articles of footwear formed therefrom are also provided. Methods of making the polyolefin resin compositions, plates, sole structures, and articles of footwear are also provided. In some aspects, the polyolefin resin composition includes an effective amount of a polymeric resin modifier. The effective amount can be an amount effective to allow the resin composition to pass a flex test, and in particular to pass a flex test without significant change in abrasion loss. In some aspects, the resin composition also includes a clarifying agent to improve optical clarity of the plate. In some aspects, the plates include a textile disposed on one or both of a first side and the second side of the plate. The textile can provide for improved bonding of the plate to other components such as a chassis or an upper.

The invention is directed to a polypropylene composition, to a three-dimensional article comprising said polypropylene composition, and to the use of said polypropylene composition. The polypropylene composition of the invention comprises a) a multimodal polypropylene homopolymer comprising at least the following fractions i) 10-30% by total weight of the polypropylene composition of a fraction with a melt flow index of 5-45 g/10 min; ii) 10-30% by total weight of the polypropylene composition of a fraction with a melt flow index of 50-200 g/10 min; and iii) 3-10% by total weight of the polypropylene composition of a fraction with a melt flow index of 250-900 g/10 min; wherein the melt flow index is as measured according to ISO 1133 using a 2.16 kg weight and at a temperature of 230° C.; b) 1-8% by total weight of the polypropylene composition of a first C.sub.2/C.sub.3 phase having an intrinsic viscosity at 135° C. of 1.5-2.5 dl/g, of which the ethylene content in the xylene cold soluble fraction is 45-65% by total weight of the xylene cold soluble fraction; c) 1-8% by total weight of the polypropylene composition of a second C.sub.2/C.sub.3 phase having an intrinsic viscosity at 135° C. of 2.6-4.0 dl/g, of which the ethylene content in the xylene cold soluble fraction is 45-65% by total weight of the xylene cold soluble fraction; d) 10-25% by total weight of the polypropylene composition of a C.sub.2/C.sub.8 phase having an intrinsic viscosity at 135° C. of 1.2-2.1 dl/g and a density of 0.85-0.89 g/cm3; and e) 10-30% by total weight of the polypropylene composition of a mineral filler.

The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of a heterophasic propylene copolymer comprising mixing 55-95 wt % of a propylene polymer and 5-45 wt % of an ethylene-propylene rubber with 0.01 −1 wt % of an organic peroxide with a decomposition half-life time of 6 minutes at a temperature between 80 and 109° C. and 0.001 −1.5 wt % of a co-agent, wherein all weight percentages are based on the total weight of the polymer composition, wherein the mixing is performed at a temperature which is below the temperature where the organic peroxide has a decomposition half-life time of 6 minutes to obtain a mixed polymer composition, and subsequently melt-mixing the mixed polymer composition. The invention also relates to A heterophasic propylene copolymer having a. Overall ethylene content between 5-20 wt % measured with FTIR b. MFI between 3 and 25 (g/10 min) measured according to ISO 1133-1:2011 at 230° C. and 2.16 kg c. 20° C. xylene soluble fraction (CXS) between 8 and 30 (wt %) d. a BTT according to the formula: BTT≦65-10* (CXS/MFI) wherein the wt % is defined relative to the total of the composition.

A degradable elastomeric material that is formed from a composite blend of elastomeric particles in a continuous degradable binder. The degradable binder is generally a water-soluble binder which has a temperature dependent solubility in water and brine systems. Such degradable elastomers are particularly useful in the fabrication of degradable oil tools, among other applications.

The present invention provides a process for extruding and pelletising a propylene copolymer. The copolymer has a content of comonomer from 5 to 40% by mole, a melt flow rate MFR.sub.2 measured at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg of from 0.5 to 15 g/10 min and a content of cold xylene soluble material of from 20 to 60% by weight. The process comprises extruding the propylene copolymer through a die plate into an underwater pelletiser and cutting strands of the propylene copolymer into pellets in the underwater pelletiser, wherein the ratio of the mass flow rate of the propylene copolymer to the mass flow rate of the cooling water is from 0.020 to 0.060; and the propylene copolymer comprises a polymeric nucleating agent.

The present invention relates to a polymer blend and the film of the polymer blend or the film layers of the polymer blend as a surface layer or coating. More particularly, the invention relates to a polymer blend which may be extruded as such or extruded onto one or both sides of packaging film to give a sealing surface(s) which exhibits surprisingly heat sealability suitable for form-fill-and-seal-packaging. The present invention also relates the use of ethylene based plastomer to reduce sealability of films comprising polypropylene.

The patent application discloses a polypropylene-plastomer-blend comprising ethylene-based plastomer, which—after conversion into final articles and exposing to surface modification like corona treatment, shows improved dyne retention behaviour and improved dyne retention ratio over time. Further disclosed are final articles and a process how to provide compositions and final articles having improved dyne retention behaviour.

The present invention relates to a new composite comprising glass or carbon fibers and polymer-based fibers as well as to a process for the preparation of the composite and molded articles made from said composite.

An aqueous or water-borne precursor liquid for forming an odor-absorbing and anti-fouling heterophasic thermoset polymeric coating is provided. The precursor includes a fluorine-containing polyol precursor having a functionality >about 2 that forms a branched fluorine-containing polymer component defining a first phase in the anti-fouling heterophasic thermoset polymeric coating. The precursor also includes a first precursor that forms a first component including a cyclodextrin present as second phase. The first phase can be a continuous phase and the second phase can be a first discrete phase, or the second phase can be the continuous phase and the first phase can be the first discrete phase. A crosslinking agent, water, and optional acid or base are also present. An emulsifier may also be included. Methods of making an odor-absorbing and anti-fouling heterophasic thermoset polymeric coatings with such precursors are also provided.

Microporous polymer films and methods of making same are disclosed. The microporous polymer film comprises: (a) 50 to 95 weight percent of polypropylene copolymer comprising (i) polypropylene homopolymer chain segments in total amount of from 50-82 wt. %, and (ii) ethylene-containing copolymer chain segments in total amount of from 18-50 wt. %; wherein at least a portion of the ethylene-containing copolymer chain segments comprise polymerized units of ethylene in an amount of at least 45 wt. % of the ethylene-containing copolymer chain segments; and (b) 5 to 50 weight percent of ethylene-propylene elastomer, wherein at least 45 weight percent of the polymerized units in the ethylene-propylene elastomer are units of ethylene.