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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1997
Charles K Buehler, Lansing, MI (US);
Stephen M Dwyer, Okemos, MI (US);
Douglas Mosier, Seoul, KR;
Matthew L Paschick, East Lansing, MI (US);
Montell North America Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A thermoplastic olefin composition useful for making molded articles with high surface gloss and mar resistance includes (1) about 10 to about 90 parts of a propylene homopolymer, copolymer, or terpolymer, (2) about 90 to about 10 parts of either an olefin polymer composition that contains a low molecular weight ethylene copolymer rubber; an elastomeric copolymer of ethylene and a C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 .alpha.-olefin made with a metallocene catalyst, or a mixture of the two, and (3) about 0.1 to about 10 parts of a lubricant per hundred parts of (1) plus (2).