Dak Americas LLC

Helen Jane Codd

Peter S Kezios

George F Rollend

David Eugene Thompson

Norman W Lisson

Karl H Buchanan

Kevin Richard Harrison

Chi-Chin Chen

Karl Buchanan

Provided is a polyester or co-polyester resin used in the manufacture of preforms suitable for making bottles and containers containing a carbon black, particularly lamp black carbon black, with a primary particle size in a range of from 100 to 160 nanometers.

Polyester resins with particular carbon black as a reheat additive in the production of stretch blow molded bottles and containers

A method for producing ultra-high intrinsic viscosity (IV) polyester resin pellets from a resin that contains one or more comonomers in an amount of up to 30 mol%. The method includes extruding a polyethylene terephthalate polyester starting material having a starting IV (IVst) meeting the following relationship: 0.65 dL/g &#x3c;IVst &#x3c;0.9 dL/g, to form resin particles having no more than 0.05 dL/g of IV lift due to solid-state polymerization, then latent heat crystallizing the resin particles to form crystallized particles having a variation of IV of no more than 0.05 dL/g across any dimension of the crystallized particles. The crystallized particles are then solid state polymerized to a final IV (IVf) of at least 0.9 dL/g to form the ultra-high intrinsic viscosity (IV) polyester resin pellets. During the solid state polymerizing the IV lift rate is at least 0.012 dL/g/hr.

Ultra-high IV polyester for extrusion blow molding and method for its production

A method of processing a polyester composition without changing the intrinsic viscosity of the polyester polymer by more than 0.025 dL/g such as injection molding a PET resin to form a bottle perform and blow molding a container from the bottle preform.

Co-polyester packaging resins prepared without solid-state polymerization, a method for processing the co-polyester resins with reduced viscosity change and containers and other articles prepared by the process

An ultra-high IV polyester suitable for high melt strength end-uses, such as injection blow molding, pipe extrusion, profile extrusion, and extrusion blow molding, is provided, having IV of greater than 0.9; and a process for its production having high IV lift rate during SSP processing.

The invention provides UV-barrier formulations which result in products which effectively resist the transmission of ultraviolet light therethrough. The invention also provides UV-barrier formulations which result in products with improved resistance to ultraviolet light. In particular, the invention provides UV barrier formulations for polyester resins that have improved resistance to ultraviolet radiation, and significantly reduce ultraviolet light transmission in the resulting resin products. The invention also provides products and manufacturing processes based on the above formulations.

UV barrier formulation for polyesters

A process for producing compositions having improved gas barrier properties, and compositions containing a polyester resin and one or more of another thermoplastic resin and a filler, and may be used to form containers that exhibit improved resistance to gas permeation.

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Wilmington, NC, United States of America

Helen Jane Codd