Mobil Oil Corporation

Exxonmobil Oil Corporation

David August Liestman

Jay K Keung

Dennis Emmett McGee

Riccardo Balloni

Donald J Burns

Lajos Edward Keller

Marie-France M Nothnagle

Barry C Rice

Michael Nahmias

A uniaxially heat-shrinkable, biaxially oriented, multilayer film for use as a tobacco pack or carton overwrap having a polypropylene-containing core layer comprising at least 70 wt % of said multilayer film and at least one polyolefin-containing skin layer adjacent said core layer is prepared by biaxially orienting a coextrudate and thereafter orienting said coextrudate by stretching 10 to 45% in the machine direction. The core layer contains isotactic polypropylene and a modifier which reduces the crystallinity of the polypropylene-containing core. Such modifiers can be selected from the group consisting of atactic polypropylene, syndiotactic polypropylene, ethylene-propylene copolymer, propylene-butene-1 copolymer, ethylene-propylene-butene terpolymer, polyethylene and linear low density polyethylene. The skin layer can be selected from the group consisting of polypropylene, ethylene-propylene copolymer, polyethylene, and ethylene-propylene-butene-1 terpolymer and contains silicone oil.

Uniaxially shrinkable biaxially oriented polypropylene film and method for use as tobacco pack overwrap

Heat sealable film

An oriented, heat-sealable polypropylene film is provided which possesses a low coefficient of friction, excellent anti-static behavior and good optical clarity.

Oriented, heat sealable multi-layered film

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Canandaigua, NY, United States of America

David August Liestman