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Agfa-gevaert Ag

Ernst Grigat

Rudolf Sundermann

Gunther Rottloff

Rolf Putter

Ralf Timmermann

Wolfgang Schulz-Schlitte

Ralf Dujardin

Harald Schmidt

Hartmut Hetzel

Georg Niederdellmann

Winfried Pommeranz

Hanns P Muller

Burkhard Kohler

Wolfgang Ebert

Klaus Horn

Aziz El Sayed

Wolfgang Beer

Jurgen Loercks

Norbert Roemer

Werner Rasshofer

Gerhard Grogler

Richard Kopp

Karsten-Josef Idel

Walter Meckel

Uwe Westeppe

Heinrich Hess

Hans-Georg Rast

Burkhard Nippe

Herbert Magerstedt

J&uuml;rgen L&ouml;rcks

Jurgen Schenk

Thermoplastic starch compositions formed by converting native starch or starch derivatives into thermoplastic starch by at least one hydrophobic biodegradable polymer that functions as a plasticizer for starch. The hydrophobic biodegradable polymer may be a polymer selected from the following list: an aliphatic polyester, a copolyester with aliphatic and aromatic blocks, a polyester amide, a polyester urethane, a polyethylene oxide polymer and/or a polyglycol, and/or mixtures of these. When the starch, such as in particular native starch or derivatives thereof, is mixed in the melt with the hydrophobic biodegradable polymer as a plasticizer or swelling agent, to homogenize the mixture, the water content is reduced to less than about 5% by weight based on the weight of the mixture.

Thermoplastic starch utilizing a biodegradable polymer as melting aid

The present invention relates to a compostable adhesive, to a method of producing the same, and to the use of the adhesive for the adhesive bonding of materials.

Compostable adhesive

For converting native starch or starch derivatives into thermoplastic starch, added to the starch is at least one hydrophobic biodegradable polymer. This hydrophobic biodegradable polymer, which serves as a plasticizer or swelling agent, may be a polymer selected from the following list: an aliphatic polyester, a copolyester with aliphatic and aromatic blocks, a polyester amide, a polyester urethane, a polyethylene oxide polymer and/or a polyglycol, and/or mixtures of these. When the starch, such as in particular native starch or derivatives thereof, is mixed in the melt with the hydrophobic biodegradable polymer as a plasticizer or swelling agent, to homogenize the mixture, the water content is reduced to <1% by weight based on the weight of the mixture.

Biodegradable polymeric mixtures based on thermoplastic starch

This invention relates to reinforced thermoplastic moulding compositions prepared from biodegradable polymers, for example aliphatic or polyester amides, aliphatic polyester urethanes, and to the use thereof for the production of mouldings and to the mouldings, wherein the reinforcing materials are selected from wood flour, fibres of natural origin, minerals of natural origin, cellulose and cellulose derivatives.

Biodegradable plastics filled with reinforcing materials

Thermoplastic moulding compositions containing A) polymers selected from the group comprising polyolefines, styrene polymers, polyamides, polyalkyl methacrylates, polyphenylene sulphides, ABS graft polymers, and thermoplastic polyurethanes, and B) esters of phosphorous acid which contain at least one oxetane group and at least one radical of a dihydric or polyhydric phenol per molecule, and optionally C) fillers and reinforcing materials, D) flame retardant additives, E) elastomeric modifiers.

Polymer moulding compositions stabilised with phosphorous acid esters

The object of the present invention is the production of thermoplastically workable copolymers capable of being composted, characterized in that they consist of partially crystalline soft segments formed from aliphatic esters and also of amorphous hard segments and that the proportion of soft segments amounts to 70% to 95% by weight.

Thermoplastic block copolyesters capable of being composted for use as

A method of foaming thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonates is disclosed. Accordingly, a polycarbonate resin is mixed with 0.01 to 10%, the percent being relative to the total weight of polycarbonate resin and polysaccharide, of a particular polysaccharide and the mixture then processed thermoplastically without the application of negative pressure in an extruder, at temperatures of 180.degree. C. to 320.degree. C., or in an injection molding machine, at temperatures of 190.degree. C. to 330.degree. C., to obtain foamed molded articles.

Method of foaming thermoplastic polycarbonate

Magnetic recording carriers having improved mechanical properties are obtained by using, as dispersing agents, compounds corresponding to the general formula ##STR1## which are attached to the magnetic pigment by their SO.sub.3 H group and which have reactive groups by which they are linked to the reactive groups of the polymeric binder through a difunctional or higher functional isocyanate.

Process for the production of magnetic recording carriers

High molecular weight amines having reduced low molecular weight amine contents are obtained by reacting a mixture of (1) a high molecular weight amine and (2) a low molecular weight amine with (3) an isocyanate in quantities such that from 0.5 to 10 equivalents of isocyanate are present for each equivalent of low molecular weight amine. The product of high molecular weight amines is particularly useful in the production of isocyanate addition products such as polyurethane plastics and foams.

Process for producing higher molecular weight amino compounds having

A process for the continuous glycolytic cleavage of polyurethane plastics waste in multi-shaft screw machines by the addition of optionally preheated diols, at a degradation temperature of 250.degree. C., while maintaining a pressure at least such that the polyurethane-diol mixture is in the liquid phase, by the discharge of the glycolysate mixture after short residence times of from 2 to 30 minutes in the reaction screw, and by rapid cooling of the glycolysate mixture.

Process for the continuous high temperature glycolytic cleavage of

The present invention is directed to a process for separating polyurethane hydrolyzates, preferably polyurethane foam hydrolyzates, into substantially amine-free foamable polyethers and diamines, comprising (a) (i) briefly expanding a hot polyurethane hydrolyzate obtained in a continuous screw extruder to normal pressure or in vacuo and, without using readily volatile components (ii) spraying said hydrolyzate directly into a tubular coil evaporator which is heated to 180.degree.-300.degree. C. and at the end of which a pressure of from 0.1 to 20 mbar is applied and (iii) separating a hydrolyzate containing less than 1% by weight of NH.sub.2 in a following cyclone from most of the diamine evaporated and all the solvent used, the diamine being separated from the solvent used in a following distillation column, optionally without any further heat input; (b) precipitating any diamine still present quantitatively in the form of its hydrochloride by introducing excess hydrogen chloride into the hydrolyzate, optionally diluted with inert solvents; and (c) the regenerated polyether obtained after removal by filtration of the precipitated amine salt being freed under reduced pressure from inert solvent and excess hydrogen chloride.

Process for separating polyurethane hydrolyzates into polyether and

The instant invention is directed to a process for the separation of polyurethane hydrolysates into polyamines and polyols which can be used again for the production of polyurethanes, comprising introducing gaseous hydrogen chloride into the hydrolysate mixture which has optionally been diluted with an inert solvent, and removing the precipitated amine salt by filtration, characterized in that

Process for the separation of polyurethane foam hydrolysates into polyol

The present invention relates to novel, substantially insoluble and infusible plastics which are cross-linked by way of triazine rings and, optionally, by way of tri-substituted bis-oxymethylene urea groups or urethane groups.

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Leverkusen, Germany

Ernst Grigat