Provided is a laminate containing, in the indicated order, a resin layer that contains a polyolefin, an adhesive layer, an undercoat layer, and a metal layer that contains metal or metal oxide.

An apparatus for forming an opening device on a receiving portion of a sheet packaging material for packaging pourable food products comprises a molding unit having a first and a second mold selectively set in an open configuration, in which they are spaced from one another to allow feed of the packaging material therebetween, and in a closed configuration, in which they cooperate with faces of the packaging material and delimit a closed mold cavity housing the receiving portion of the packaging material and adapted to be filled with molten plastic material to define, when the plastic material sets, the opening device. The apparatus further comprises feeding device to feed molten plastic material to the molding zone in the open configuration of the first and second mold, and pressing device exerting pressure on the dose to force it to fill the mold cavity and to form the opening device.

A bushing for a foam mix-head includes an injection port wall surrounding a vestigial area for foam accumulation, a substrate opening transition segment configured to be situated with an opening of a substrate, a seal housing, and a seal seated in a seal seat of the seal housing. The seal helps prevent leakage during a foaming operation, such as when manufacturing a vehicle interior panel having a foam layer between a skin layer and a substrate.

The invention relates to a vehicle tailgate made of a plastic material (12), comprising an inner panel (1), an outer panel (2) and a first glue bead (31) applied between the inner panel (1) and the outer panel (2) so as to assemble the two panels by gluing and to create a water-tight inner space between the two panels, the outer panel (2) having a skin (21) with an appearance surface, a housing (14) for receiving an optical unit, which is delimited by a peripheral wall (22) joined to the skin (21), and a cavity (25) delimited by the skin (21), at least a portion of the peripheral wall (22) of the housing (14) and walls (23, 26) projecting from the housing (14) towards the inner face of the skin (21). The invention is characterised in that at least one wall of the walls (23, 26) projecting from the housing (14) towards the inner face of the skin (21) and participating in delimiting the cavity (25) does not touch the inner face of the skin (21), such that there is a gap (27) between the at least one wall and the inner face of the skin (21), and in that a second glue bead (32) is applied at the gap (27) in order to seal the gap and thus ensure that the cavity (25) is water-tight. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing a vehicle tailgate of this type.

A fluid receiver fitting (FRF) for supporting aseptic fluid transfer between enclosures, as well as methods for forming the fluid receiver, is disclosed. The FRF includes a unitized seal section (226) and channel section (228) formed together by 2-shot injection molding, thereby eliminating or minimizing modes of fluid contamination where the seal section and channel section are separate members. The channel section may comprise one or more channels (286) for insertion of a needle (N) therein and a respective penetration zone (266) in a corresponding section of the seal section for the needle to a penetrate and thereby extract a fluid sample from a liquid stream against which a portion of the seal section is exposed. An angled interface (288) between each channel and its corresponding penetration zone provides a liquid stream pressure concentration zone which applies pressure to close a core (C) in the seal section formed by removal of the needle.

The invention is directed to a process to manufacture an interconnected stack of thermoplastic frames having two sides by stacking the thermoplastic frames to obtain a stack of frames such that the facing sides of two neighbouring frames are in contact with each other at a contact area. When stacking a longitudinal conduit is formed which runs along the length of the stack and a branched conduit is formed at the contact area. The interconnected stack of thermoplastic frames are obtained by supplying a pressurised melt of a plastic material to the elongated conduit and branched conduits.

A method of forming a package is provided and includes providing two laminate edge portions of the package, each of which includes a foil layer between first and second resin layers; and welding together the respective first resin layers at a first position spaced apart from the edges while not welding the respective first resin layers at the edges, wherein the edge portions include edges from which electrode terminals extend such that portions of the electrode terminals are exposed beyond the edges, and wherein the edge portions are between a sealing portion and exposed portions of positive and negative electrode terminals.

Disclosed is molding unit for the forming of containers made of thermoplastic material including: two half-molds delimited by a front joint face and by a rear assembly face, with the two half-molds being able to occupy a joined position via their joint face; and a molding cavity that is made of two parts in each joint face, where the cavity opens vertically upward via a passage opening. In the joined position, the assembly faces of the mold have two planes of symmetry that intersect at a central vertical axis of the mold. The central axis of the passage opening is offset transversely in relation to the central axis of the mold.

A method of producing a sealing member for a fuel cell includes: setting a base material made of a modified polypropylene in a mold; bringing a hydrosilicone crosslinked ethylene/-olefin/non-conjugated diene copolymer into contact with the base material and performing molding in the mold; and vulcanizing the hydrosilicone crosslinked ethylene/-olefin/non-conjugated diene copolymer and at the same time, bonding the hydrosilicone crosslinked ethylene/-olefin/non-conjugated diene copolymer and the base material by vulcanization, in the mold with a molding temperature set to a temperature that is higher than a vulcanization start temperature of the hydrosilicone crosslinked ethylene/-olefin/non-conjugated diene copolymer and lower than a melting point of the modified polypropylene.

The invention relates to a biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film comprising a propylene homopolymer or propylene-ethylene copolymer having an ethylene content of at most 1.0 wt % based on the propylene-ethylene copolymer having an Mw/Mn in the range from 5.0 to 12, wherein Mw stands for the weight average molecular weight and Mn stands for the number average weight and wherein Mw and Mn are measured according to ASTM D6474-12, an XS in the range from 1.0 to 6.0 wt %, wherein XS stands for the amount of xylene solubles which are measured according to ASTM D 5492-10, a melt flow rate in the range of 1 to 10 dg/min as measured according to IS01133 (2.16 kg/230 C.) and a crystal size distribution as indicated by a height/width ratio of the highest peak of the first cooling curve of at least 0.70 W/g C. as determined by ASTM D3418-08 using a heating and cooling rate of 10 C./min.