Ausimont S.p.a.

Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy S.p.a.

Solvay Solexis S.p.a.

Technip France

Pasqua Colaianna

Julio A Abusleme

Giulio Brinati

Giambattista Besana

Vito Tortelli

Walter Navarrini

Vincenzo Arcella

Valeriy Kapelyushko

Marco Mirenda

Claudia Manzoni

Mattia Bassi

Giuseppe Marchionni

Marco Avataneo

Patrizia Serenella Maccone

Serena Carella

Aldo Sanguineti

Matteo Fantoni

Enrico Marchese

Valery Kapeliouchko

Fabio Polastri

Mehdi M Emad

Letanzio Bragante

Marco Colladon

Marco Dossi

Amelia Mennella

Stephen Edmondson

Nicasio Edoardo Messina

Emanuele Di Nicolo

Giorgio Canil

Luca Colombo

Natalino Del Fanti

Natalino D Fanti

Nicasio Messina

The invention pertains to a fluoropolymer composition comprising certain tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoromethyvinylether copolymers having well-defined TFE/MVE monomer composition and possessing low molecular weight and a white pigment, to the use of this latter for manufacturing shaped articles, and to shaped articles therefrom, including components of light emitting apparatuses, e.g. LED assemblies.

Fluoropolymer composition for components of light emitting apparatuses

The present invention pertains to a multilayer assembly, to a process for the manufacture of said multilayer assembly, to a pipe comprising said multilayer assembly and to uses of said pipe in various applications.

Multilayer assembly

The invention pertains to certain perfluorinated thermoplastic elastomers suitable for being processed through additive manufacturing techniques, thanks to their surprising ability to possess better processability (notably more significant shear thinning at processability temperature) than corresponding perfluorinated thermoplasts, which possess similar product profile and hence performances, offering hence advantages in throughput and part design accurate control, containment of degradation, reduction of fumes, and yet delivering parts with outstanding chemical resistance.

Perfluorinated thermoplastic elastomer

The present invention pertains to a cable comprising: &#x2014;at least one conductor coated by an insulation coating layer, &#x2014;a first protective layer surrounding said insulation coating layer, said first protective layer at least comprising, but preferably being made of a tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) copolymer comprising from 0.8% to 2.5% by weight of recurring units derived from at least one perfluorinated alkyl vinyl ether having formula (I) here below: CF&#x2550;CF&#x2014;O&#x2014;R, wherein Ris a linear or branched C-Cperfluorinated alkyl group or a linear or branched C-Cperfluorinated alkyl group comprising one or more ether oxygen atoms, said TFE copolymer having a melt flow index comprised between 1.0 and 6.0 g/10 min, as measured according to ASTM D1238 at 372&#xb0; C. under a load of 5 Kg [polymer (F)]; &#x2014;optionally, a second protective layer surrounding said first protective layer, and &#x2014;an armor shell surrounding said first or second protective layer. The invention also pertains to use of the cable in downhole wells.

Downhole cable

The invention mainly pertains to a method for heat treating a composition [composition (C)] which contains at least one melt-processible perfluoropolymer [polymer (F)] formed of tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) copolymer with one or more perfluorinated comonomers [comonomer (F)] containing at least one unsaturation of ethylene type in amounts from 0.5% to 13% by weight, preferably from 0.6% to 11% by weight, and more preferably from 0.8% to 9% by weight; said polymer (F) possessing reactive end groups comprising at least one of the group consisting of hydrogen atoms, oxygen atoms and ethylenically unsaturated double bonds in an amount of at least 4.5 mmol/kg, the process comprising at least the step of heat-treating the composition (C) at a temperature of at least 260&#xb0; C.

Melt-processable perfluoropolymers having improved thermal and mechanical properties after heating treatment

The invention pertains to a fluoropolymer composition comprising: &#x2014;at least one fluoropolymer [polymer (A)]; &#x2014;at least one benzoxazine compound [compound (B)] of formula (I), wherein each of R, equal to or different at each occurrence, is H or a C-Calkyl group; Ris a C-Chydrocarbon group, possibly comprising heteroatoms, optionally comprising at least one benzoxazine group; j is zero or an integer of 1 to 4; each of R, equal or different at each occurrence, is a halogen or a C-Chydrocarbon group, possibly comprising heteroatoms, optionally comprising at least one benzoxazine group; &#x2014;at least one aromatic polyimide polymer [polymer (PI)]; &#x2014;at least one organic solvent [solvent (S)], and to a method for coating a surface, specifically a metal surface, with a fluoropolymer, using said fluoropolymer composition. 

Fluoropolymer composition

The invention pertains to foamable thermoplastic fluoropolymer composition comprising:

Foamable fluoropolymer compositions

The invention mainly pertains to a process for heat treating a composition [composition (C)] which contains at least one melt-processible perfluoropolynner [polymer (F)] formed of tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) copolymer with one or more perfluorinated comonomers [comonomer (F)] containing at least one unsaturation of ethylene type in amounts from 0.5% to 13% by weight, preferably from 0.6% to 11% by weight, and more preferably from 0.8% to 9% by weight; the process comprising at least the step of heat-treating the composition (C) at a temperature of at least 260&#xb0; C. and in the absence of a melt flowable polytetrafluoroethylene. The invention is also related to a melt-processible perfluoropolynner [polymer (F1)] formed of tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) copolymer with one or more perfluorinated comonomers [comonomer (F)] containing at least one unsaturation of ethylene type in amounts from 0.5% to 13% by weight, preferably from 0.6% to 11% by weight, and more preferably from 0.8% to 9% by weight, wherein a particular relation between comonomer (F) content and first melting temperature of polymer (F1) is satisfied.

Use in LAN cable applications, as materials for the coating of the primary cable and for the external jacket, of TFE thermoprocessable perfluoropolymers comprising perfluoroalkylvinylethers in the following amounts, expressed as percent by weight on the total of the monomers: a) 0-5.5% of perfluoromethylvinylether (PMVE); b) 0.4-4.5% of perfluoroethylvinylether (PEVE) and/or perfluoropropylvinylether (PPVE); when a) is present, then a)+b) ranges from 1.5% to 5.5% by weight on the total of the monomers; optionally c) 0-6% of hexafluoropropene (HFP); the TFE amount being the complement to 100% by weight.

LAN cables

Copolymers formed by TFE and FMVE containing FMVE in percent by moles from 2.5% to 8%; the % TFE moles being the complement to 100% of the FMVE moles.

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