Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited

Toshifumi Morimoto

Kunimichi Kubo

Noboru Ikegami

Toshiyuki Miyauchi

Takaaki Hattori

Sumio Ikeda

Narumi Ishikawa

Hirofumi Nishibu

A polyethylene composition which has a wide molecular weight distribution and excellent balance among melt elasticity, flow characteristics and mechanical properties, and which is suitable for use in producing large-scaled hollow plastics articles. The composition comprises a higher molecular weight ethylene polymer or copolymer and a lower molecular weight ethylene polymer or copolymer which is specified in view of the content of o-dichlorobenzene and the ratio of the area under the elution temperature-eluate volume curve between 25.degree.to 90.degree. C. to the area under said curve of 90.degree. C. and above in temperature rising elution fractionation.

Polyethylene composition

A polyethylene composition which has excellent flow characteristics and mechanical properties, especially low temperature mechanical properties as well as thermal stability, elasticity and workability for molding. The polyethylene composition comprises 20 to 80 wt. % of an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer of higher molecular weight having (a) intrinsic viscosity (.eta..sub.1) of 1.2 to 9.0 dl/g, (b) density (d.sub.1) of 0.890 to 0.935 g/cm.sup.3 (c) a specific areal ratio calculated with an elution temperature-eluate volume curve in elution fractionation, and (d) a specific quantity of the content which is soluble in 25.degree. C. o-dichlorobenzene, and 80 to 20 wt. % of ethylene homopolymer or ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer of lower molecular weight having (e) intrinsic viscosity (.eta..sub.2) of 0.2 to 1.6 dl/g, (f) density (d.sub.2) of 0.890 to 0.980 g/cm.sup.3 and, wherein the above (.eta..sub.1) is larger than (.eta..sub.2), and the prepared composition has an intrinsic viscosity (.eta.) of 0.77 to 5.2 dl/g, a density (d) of 0.890 to 0.950 g/cm.sup.3 and a specific N-value of 1.7 to 3.5.

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshifumi Morimoto