Huntsman International LLC

Hugo Verbeke

Christian Esbelin

Hans Godelieve Guido Verbeke

Joris Karel Peter Bosman

Dominicus Limerkens

Giacomo Giannini

Anja Anneke Vanhalle

Sandra Meynen

Bram Vanroy

David Briers

Lies Bonami

Hans Godelieve Verbeke

Johan Van Dyck

Christiaan Debien

Elisabeth Els Mercier

Bert Janssens

Els Elisabeth Mercier

Peter Karel Joris Bosman

Kevin Van Looy

Sandra Marie Louise Meynen

Ainara Astaburuaga Gutierrez

Sandra Marie Meynen

A cupsole for footwear, said cupsole comprising at least a sidewall, a bottom surface and a central portion and wherein said sidewall circumscribes the central portion, said central portion having openings, preferably in the form of at least one honeycomb structure and wherein at least the sidewall and the bottom surface of the cupsole have a solid structure with no openings and wherein the complete cupsole is customized on the base of specific and measured data obtained directly from the user and printed in 1 single 3D printing step thereby using a thermoplastic polymer.

3D printed customized cupsoles

A method for producing expanded thermoplastic polymeric (eTP) material and tuning the density of the eTP during the process of producing said eTP wherein the density of the eTP material can be decreased by increasing the partial pressure of the at least one gas which is soluble in the TP material and/or by increasing the total pressure during the charging step.

Method for producing expanded thermoplastic polymers with controlled density

A cross-linkable powder for use in a selective laser sintering (SLS) process for additive manufacturing is disclosed as well as a novel manufacturing process to form a 3D object using said cross-linkable powder. The manufacturing process makes it possible to create interlayer covalent bondings between deposited layers of cross-linkable powder such that 3D printed objects are achieved having improved mechanical strength, less object deformation and/or no warping.

Cross-linkable thermoplastic powder for powder based additive manufacturing

A trimerization catalyst composition suitable for making a polyisocyanurate comprising (insulation) foam, said composition comprising at least a trimerization catalyst compound selected from one or more organic salts from alkoxides wherein said organic salt is selected from alkali metal, earth alkali metal, a transition metal such as Ti and/or quaternary ammonium organic salts.

Isocyanate trimerization catalyst for making polyisocyanurate comprising foams

A catalyst composition comprising at least a catalyst compound selected from multi metal cyanide compounds for the selective production of oxazolidinone compounds by reacting an isocyanate compound with an epoxide compound and oxazolidinone comprising materials obtained using said catalyst compound.

Catalysts for making oxazolidinone materials

A process for providing one or more thermoset polymeric materials onto an object is disclosed wherein said process comprises at least the following steps:

Three dimensional deposition method to create layers of polymeric material onto an object

Curable composition obtained by combining and mixing an epoxy resin composition comprising an epoxy resin, a monool and/or polyol and a compound comprising a carboxamide group, and a polyisocyanate composition comprising a polyisocyanate, a lithium halide and a urea compound, wherein the number of moles of lithium halide per isocyanate equivalent ranges of from 0.0001-0.04 and the number of urea+biuret equivalents per isocyanate equivalent of from 0.0001-0.4. The epoxy resin composition is claimed as well.

Epoxy resin composition

An in-situ formed polyurethane catalyst for catalyzing the formation of polyurethane in a reactive composition comprising polyisocyanate compounds and isocyanate reactive compounds, said catalyst formed by combining in said reactive composition:

In-situ formation of polyurethane catalysts

Use of compounds selected from polyols derived from dimer fatty acids and/or dimer fatty alcohols as toughening agent in a process for making polyisocyanate polyaddition reaction products, in particular for polyisocyanate polyaddition reaction products having a hardblock &#x3e;40% and a process for making said products.

Method for improving toughness of polyisocyanate polyaddition reaction products

A curable polyisocyanate composition comprising at least one or more polyisocyanate compounds, at least one or more trimerization catalyst compounds, at least one or more aldehyde compounds wherein the aldehyde compound is selected from compounds with the structure R&#x2014;CHO wherein CHO is an aldehyde group and R is a hydrocarbyl group selected from an alkyl, alkenyl or aryl having 1-50 carbon atoms, preferably 1-20 carbon atoms, and at least one or more compounds selected from compounds which comprise a carboxamide group having the structure &#x2014;CO&#x2014;NHand/or from compounds which comprise a group having the structure &#x2014;CO&#x2014;NH&#x2014;CO&#x2014;.

Aldehyde comprising compounds suitable for making curable polyisocyanate compositions

Curable composition obtained by combining and mixing an epoxy resin composition, comprising an epoxy resin and a carboxamide, and a polyisocyanate composition, comprising a polyisocyanate, a lithium halide and a urea compound, wherein the number of moles of lithium halide per isocyanate equivalent ranges of from 0.0001-0.04 and the number of urea+biuret equivalents per isocyanate equivalent of from 0.0001-0.4.

Curable polyisocyanate composition comprising an epoxy

A stable partly cured polyisocyanate composition is disclosed which comprises polyisocyanurate (intermediate polyisocyanurate comprising material) and which is further curable. Furthermore a process for making the intermediate (partly cured) polyisocyanurate comprising material and a process for further curing the partly cured polyisocyanurate composition is disclosed. Also polyisocyanurate comprising materials made or obtainable from partly cured intermediate polyisocyanurate comprising material are disclosed and processes for further curing a partly cured polyisocyanurate comprising composition (intermediate material).

Intermediate polyisocyanurate comprising materials

Stable polyisocyanate composition comprising a compound comprising a group having the structure &#x2014;CO&#x2014;NH&#x2014;O&#x2014; in such an amount that the ratio of the number of &#x2014;CO&#x2014;NH&#x2014;CO&#x2014; groups to the number of isocyanate groups is at most equal to 1. Curable composition comprising this polyisocyanate composition, lithium halide, urea and an epoxy resin.

Curable polyisocyanate composition

The present invention relates to a formulation comprising at least one thermoplastic polyurethane polymer and a flame retardant composition, the flame retardant composition comprising

Flame retardant composition for thermoplastic polyurethane polymers

Flame retardant thermoplastic composition comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer, preferably a thermoplastic polyurethane polymer, at least one conventional flame retardant and optionally at least one mineral filler together with modified polysiloxane in an amount of less than 1% by weight based on the total composition, preferably between 0.1 and 0.9% and most preferably between 0.25 and 0.75% by weight. The thermoplastic compositions are useful in applications where low flame properties are desirable, such as wire and cable applications.

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Hugo Verbeke