Melt tension improver for polyolefin resins and process for producing the same
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- MITSUBISHI CHEM CORP
- Publication Date
- 2001-08-23
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable ยท inactive patent
Abstract
Description
[0001] The present invention relates to a melt tension enhancer for polyolefin resins that contains (A) polytetrafluoroethylene and (B) a polymer based on an alkyl (meth)acrylate of 5-30 carbon atoms, and to a process for its production.
[0002] Polyolefin resins have been widely used in the past for a variety of molded products because of their low cost and excellent physical properties. However, because of low tension upon melting (hereunder referred to as "melt tension") in the case of polypropylene, for example, there are some disadvantages in terms of processability, including inferior vacuum moldability, blow moldability, foam moldability, extrusion moldability and calender moldability.
[0003] Polyethylene and the like are often blended with polypropylene toward the aim of improving these processability, but since the improvement in processability is insufficient, large amounts of polyethylene are required and this leads to the disadvantage of lower rigidity of the resulting blen...