IP Library Granted Patent US 11,292,858
Granted Patent B2
US 11,292,858 · App. 16/469,034 · Granted Apr 5, 2022

Polypropylene composition combining low sealing initiation temperature and high melting temperature

Inventors: Luca Boragno (Pichling, AT); Luigi Resconi (Neuhofen an der Krems, AT); Mattias Hoff (Steyregg, AT); Shital Das (Helsinki, FI); Kauno Alastalo (Porvoo, FI); Markku Vahteri (Porvoo, FI); Friedrich Berger (Linz, AT); Davide Tranchida (Linz, AT)
Assignee: BOREALIS AG
C08F210/06C08F2/34C08F120/02C08F210/08C08L23/14C08L23/18
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Patent No.
US 11,292,858
App. No.
16/469,034
Granted
Apr 5, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a polypropylene composition which combines low sealing initiation temperature (SIT) and high melting point (Tm), thus having a broad sealing window.

Claims (21)

1. Polypropylene composition that is a binary blend comprising two propylene polymer fractions PPF1 and PPF2 in specific amounts:

a) 30 to 50 wt % of propylene polymer fraction PPF1 that is a propylene copolymer comprising propylene monomer and 1.50 to 7.00 mol % of one comonomer selected from C 4 -C 10 alpha-olefin, and

b) 70 to 50 wt % of propylene polymer fraction PPF2 that is a propylene terpolymer comprising propylene monomer, 0.30 to 3.00 mol % of ethylene comonomer and 3.50 to 12.00 mol % of one comonomer selected from C 4 -C 10 alpha-olefin, wherein the polypropylene composition:

i. has a melting temperature (Tm) in a range of 135 to 160° C. as determined by DSC according to ISO 11357,

ii. satisfies the equation:

Delta=Tm−SIT

wherein Delta is in a range of 30 to 43° C., and wherein

Tm is melting temperature, in ° C., of the polypropylene composition,

SIT is sealing initiation temperature, in ° C., of the polypropylene composition, as calculated from pellets via DSC analysis,

wherein amounts of PPF1 and PPF2 being are relative to a total sum of the propylene polymer fractions PPF1 and PPF2, and

wherein the polypropylene composition has an amount of xylene soluble (XS) in a range of 3 to 15 wt %, as determined at 25° C. according ISO 16152; 5 th edition; 2005-07-01.

2. Polypropylene composition according to claim 1 , wherein the polypropylene composition has an MFR 2 in a range of 3.0 to 10.0 g/10 min, as measured at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg according to ISO 1133.

3. Polypropylene composition according to claim 1 , wherein the propylene polymer fraction PPF1 is a propylene copolymer comprising 1-butene (C 4 ) and the propylene polymer fraction PPF2 is a propylene terpolymer comprising ethylene comonomer and 1-butene (C 4 ).

4. Process for producing the polypropylene composition according to claim 1 , by a sequential polymerisation process comprising at least two reactors connected in series, said process comprising the steps:

a) polymerising in a first reactor that is a slurry reactor propylene and one comonomer selected from C 4 -C 10 alpha-olefin and obtaining a propylene polymer fraction PPF1,

b) transferring the propylene polymer fraction PPF1 and unreacted comonomers of a reactor (R-1) into a second reactor (R-2) that is a gas-phase reactor-1 (GPR-1),

c) polymerising in the gas-phase reactor-1 (GPR-1) propylene, ethylene and one comonomer selected from C 4 -C 10 alpha-olefin in the presence of the propylene polymer fraction PPF1, and obtaining a propylene polymer fraction PPF2, that is a propylene terpolymer, said propylene polymer fraction PPF2 and the propylene polymer fraction PPF1 forming the polypropylene composition,

d) recovering the polypropylene composition.

5. A film comprising the polypropylene composition according to claim 1 .

6. The film according to claim 5 wherein said film is a blown film or a cast film.

7. The film according to claim 5 , wherein said film is a multilayer film.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 23, 2022
From: BOREALIS AG
To: BOREALIS AG
Reel/Frame 059219/0949 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 27, 2019
From: BORAGNO, LUCA; RESCONI, LUIGI; HOFF, MATTHIAS; DAS, SHITAL; ALASTALO, KUANO; VAHTERI, MARKKU; BERGER, FRIEDRICH; TRANCHIDA, DAVIDE
To: BOREALIS AG
Reel/Frame 050177/0389 →