Patent ID: 7312267
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: A63B,C08K,C08L

Abstract:
1. A process for forming a thermoplastic material, the process comprising: blending 30 to 60 parts of a copolymer of an alpha-olefin and an alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid with 30 to 60 parts of a metallocene-catalyzed alpha-olefin with a softening comonomer in an internal mixer to create a first mixture; adding 40 to 70 parts of an oleic acid to the first mixture; adding 5 to 15 parts of magnesium hydroxide to the first mixture; mixing the oleic acid and magnesium hydroxide into the first mixture in the internal mixer to create a second mixture; removing the second mixture from the internal mixer; cooling the second mixture; granulating the second mixture; extruding the second mixture to neutralize a plurality of acid groups of the second mixture to form a fully neutralized mixture; forming an article from the neutralized mixture.