Patent ID: 8550024

Claim:
An article comprising: a) an external skin layer comprising from 30 to 50 wt %, based on the weight of the external skin layer, of a resin composition and from 50 to 70 wt % of a metallocene-produced polyethylene, the same as, or different from that of the resin composition; b) an intermediate foamed layer comprising from 95 to 99.8 wt %, based on the weight of the foamed layer, of the resin composition and from 0.2 to 5 wt % of a foaming agent; and c) an internal skin layer consisting of a metallocene-produced polyethylene, the same as, or different from that used either in the external skin layer or in the resin composition, wherein the resin composition comprises from 80 to 98 wt %, based on the weight of the resin composition, of metallocene-produced polyethylene, from 0 to 20 wt % of grafted polyethylene and from 0 to 20 wt % of ionomer, with the restriction that at least one of the grafted polyethylene or the ionomer is not 0 wt %.