Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Mg Industries

Messer Griesheim Gmbh

Horst Neumann

Rolf Van Bonn

Manfred Eschwey

Friedrich Kloos

Helmut Strametz

Bernhard Dorrer

ManfredNeumann Eschwey

Manfred Busch

Plastic objects are exposed to a gas mixture containing fluorine and a gaseous oxidizing agent, to produce an extremely smooth surface on the objects. The oxidizing agent can be oxygen, and the object is preferably exposed to the gaseous mixture for about 10-30 seconds. The surface of the object treated according to the present invention is found to be considerably more smooth and glossy than objects treated with fluorine alone, without the oxidizing agent. The surface formed according to the present invention therefore minimizes the contact area between the treated object and the surrounding media.

Method for producing smooth surfaces on plastics

A process for blow molding and fluorination of a hollow thermoplastic article includes bringing a blank to rest against the inside wall of the blow mold as a result of introducing an inert blow gas. An inert gas/reaction mixture is then introduced in the hollow article for fluorinating the inside surface of the hollow article. After the inside surface of the hollow article has cooled off, the inert gas/reaction gas mixture is blown in below the melting point of the thermoplastic material.

Process for the production of fluorinated surfaces of polymers

Escape of the blow medium at the blow mandrel/HDPE contact surface is prevented during extrusion blow molding of HDPE with an aggressive blow medium if a blow mandrel with a movable sealing element is used.

Blow mandrel for extrusion blow molding with agressive blow media

A polypropylene molding composition of polypropylene, ethylene-propylene copolymer and polyethylene having a high hardness and increased impact strength and homogeneity after processing is obtained by way of a continuous three-stage polymerization, when the melt viscosities of the polymer mixtures obtained in the individual stages are in a determined ratio of one to the other.

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