Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Mika Horiuchi

Noriko Yagi

Katsumi Suzuki

Yasuhiro Kusanose

Yoshifumi Araki

Daisuke Shimizu

Takahiro Hisasue

Kenta Shibuya

Ippei Kameda

A thermoplastic elastomer composition including:

Thermoplastic elastomer composition, plug body and container

A polyolefin-based resin composition comprising:

Polyolefin-based resin composition, film, medical bag, and tube

The present invention provides a foam which maintains high hardness while being lightweight and has excellent peel strength and permanent compression set, and a foamable composition used to obtain the aforementioned foam. A foamable composition comprising (A) an olefin-based copolymer; (B) a copolymer that is (B-I) and/or (B-II) described below, (B-I) a vinyl aromatic-based copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene, and/or a vinyl aromatic-based copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic compound and alkylene, (B-II) an ethylene-based copolymer having an unsaturated group; (C) an inorganic filler; (D) an organic silane coupling agent; and (E) a foaming agent; wherein a mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), is from 5/95 to 100/0; an amount of the component (C) is from 0.5 to 35 mass parts, and an amount of the component (E) is from 0.1 to 20 mass parts, based on 100 mass parts of a total amount of the components (A) and (B); and an amount of the component (D) is from 0.1 to 50 mass parts, based on 100 mass parts of the component (C).

Foamable composition, process for producing the same and foam

This thermoplastic elastomer composition comprises: 100 parts by mass of a hydrogenated block copolymer (a); from 3 to 50 parts by mass of a polypropylene-based resin (b), from 5 to 100 parts by mass of a polyphenylene ether resin (c), and from 50 to 200 parts by mass of a non-aromatic softener (d), the hydrogenated block copolymer (a) is able to be formed by hydrogenating a block copolymer that comprises at least one polymer block A comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon compound monomer unit as a primary component and at least one polymer block B comprising a conjugated diene compound monomer unit as a primary component, and a weight average molecular weight of the hydrogenated block copolymer (a) is from 100,000 to 350,000.

Thermoplastic elastomer composition, stopper for medical container, and medical container

The present invention provides a crosslinked foam having an excellent balance of various physical properties in terms of lightness, flexibility, permanent compression set, tear strength, impact resilience, and molding stability; a shoe midsole; and a crosslinkable and foamable composition that provides the crosslinked foam and shoe midsole. A crosslinkable and foamable composition comprising (A) an ethylene-based copolymer; (B) a copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and an unsaturated bond-containing a conjugated diene monomer unit; (C) an organic peroxide; and (D) a foaming agent; a mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), being from 97/3 to 50/50; and the component (B) comprising 5 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less of the vinyl aromatic monomer unit, and 5 mass % or more and 55 mass % or less of the conjugated diene monomer unit.

Crosslinkable and foamable composition, crosslinked foam, and shoe midsole comprising the same

It is an object of the present invention to provide a hydrogenated block copolymer pellet, which has the ability to become a molded product that is excellent in transparency, flexibility, bleeding resistance, and low combustion ash content, without causing blocking among pellets. A hydrogenated block copolymer pellet having 100 parts by mass of a pellet molded product of hydrogenated block copolymer A and 0.01 to 1.5 parts by mass of a dusting agent of polyethylene powder B, wherein the hydrogenated block copolymer A has at least one polymeric block a mainly including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and at least one polymeric block b mainly including a conjugated diene monomer unit, in which a total of a 1,2-bond content and a 3,4-bond content in the polymeric block b before hydrogenation is 40% to 90%, the hydrogenated block copolymer A has a hardness of 30&#xb0; to 67&#xb0;, a content of the polymeric block a in the hydrogenated block copolymer A is 5% to 30% by mass, and the polyethylene powder B has a number average molecular weight of 15,000 or less, an average particle diameter of 1 to 15 &#x3bc;m, and an angle of repose of 45&#xb0; to 70&#xb0;.

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Mika Horiuchi