Method of making a blow molded article from a preform including: a) providing a preform of a thermoplastic material having a plurality of effect structures each having an effect surface having a normal with an orientation, the preform having a body with one or more walls and an opening, wherein at least a portion of the one or more walls of the preform has a three-dimensional pattern of cavities and/or protrusions thereon; and b) blow molding the preform to form a blow molded article, wherein the step of blow molding the preform changes the orientation of the normal of at least some of the effect surfaces of the effect structures to create a visual effect in at least one wall of the blow molded article.

The present invention is related to the use of colored effect pigments for enhancing the infrared absorption capacity of colored polymers and to a method for enhancing the infrared absorption capacity of colored polymers.

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.

A method for printing an object that is specified to have a pattern image visible at the surface of the object includes generating a plurality of layers of voxels to be printed on top of each other on a support by depositing voxel drops of marking material in order to create the object consisting of columns of said voxel drops. Each voxel drop in a column of voxel drops is deposited in a different layer. For each column of voxel drops intended to be printed marking material is deposited for each layer in the column. For each column of voxel drops intended to be printed, it is determined if the location of a top layer of the column is intended to be part of the pattern intended to be established at the surface of the object. If so, a voxel drop deposition is paused for a predetermined number of layers within the column before the top layer of the column is printed. The remaining originally intended layers of the column are deposited after the pause of the voxel drop deposition within the column.

A process of forming a polymer with a blue light absorber chemically bonded to a polymeric backbone of the polymer includes mixing one or more olefin monomers with one or more functionalizedp-vinylstyrylanthracene monomers to form a mixture of reactants. The mixture includes less than 10 percent by weight of the one or more functionalizedp-vinylstyrylanthracene monomers. The process also includes polymerizing the mixture to produce a polymer with one or more blue light absorption characteristics.

Systems, articles, and methods that integrate photopolymer film with eyeglass lenses are described. One or more hologram(s) may be recorded into/onto the photopolymer file to enable the lens to be used as a transparent holographic combiner in a wearable heads-up display employing an image source, such as a microdisplay or a scanning laser projector. The methods of integrating photopolymer film with eyeglass lenses include: positioning photopolymer film in a lens mold and casting the lends around the photopolymer film; sandwiching photopolymer film in between two portions of a lens' applying photopolymer film to a concave surface of a lens' and/or affixing a planar carrier (with photopolymer film thereon) to two points across a length of a concave surface of a lens. Respective lenses manufactured/adapted by each of these processes are also described.

The present disclosure provides a process. In an embodiment, the process includes elongating a multilayer film to a impart a haze value greater than 30% to the multilayer film. The multilayer film has at least two layers: (A) a core layer composed of an ethylene/α-olefin multi-block copolymer and (B) a first skin layer in contact with the core layer, the skin layer composed of an ethylene-based polymer. The process includes releasing the elongating force from the elongated multilayer film to form a hazed multilayer film having a haze value greater than 30%. The process includes stretching the hazed multilayer film to form a stretched multilayer film having a clarity value greater than 80%. The process includes relaxing the stretch force from the stretched multilayer film to form a relaxed multilayer film having a haze value greater than 30%.

The present invention provides a functional sheet including a functional layer provided between protective layers. The functional layer is a polarizing film layer, a photochromic layer, or a combination of the polarizing film layer and the photochromic layer. At least one of the protective layers includes a layer formed of a resin (C) containing a polyester resin (A) obtained as a result of polycondensation of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol and 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid and an aromatic polycarbonate resin (B), the polyester resin (A) being contained at a content of 10 to 100 parts by mass and the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B) being contained at a content of 0 to 90 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass as a total of the polyester resin (A) and the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B). A lens is provided with such a functional sheet.

The masterbatch includes a non-modified polyolefin resin, an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, and an antifogging agent, the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer is a copolymer having a structural unit derived from vinyl acetate in an amount from 5% to 30% by mol, the antifogging agent is a fatty acid ester formed from a fatty acid and a polyhydric alcohol, and a content of the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer is in a range from 7 to 75 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the non-modified polyolefin resin.

A polyethylene terephthalate composition (PET), an injection-molded bottle preform made from a PET composition, a refillable PET container blow-molded from the preform, catalyst compositions used for making the PET composition, methods for making the PET composition, methods for injection-molding a PET bottle preform, methods for blow-molding a refillable PET bottle from a preform and methods for improving the rewash stability and recyclability of refillable PET bottles particularly for carbonated soft drinks are disclosed. The polyethylene terephthalate composition includes a polyester resin containing terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, ethylene glycol and cyclohexane dimethanol and residual amount of catalytic composition comprising Sb and Ti. The polyethylene terephthalate composition is especially useful for large blow moldings and provides a change in the fill point volume after 5 wash cycles of a 2.5 liter blow molded bottle of 14 ml or less.