An enterprise wide electronic commerce system allows trading partners to act as participants in a complex trading process. Participants communicate with one another by joining conversations that are hosted in a collaboration space and managed by a collaboration hub. In this manner, the enterprise workflow may have an effect on, or be affected by, local workflows. The invention provides a message r...

Process for working up a reaction mixture formed by ammoxidation of a ketone with hydrogen peroxide and ammonia using a titanium-containing catalyst in homogeneous solution comprises separation of the catalyst; selective separation of the product oxime; discarding the water of reaction; and recycling the solvent. The process has at least one membrane separation step.

A method of disseminating information to mobile individuals (4). The presence of an individual (4) in the vicinity of an entity (18) is detected. The entity (18) has information for dissemination. The individual's wishes to receive the information are verified and, in response to a positive verification, the information is disseminated to the individual (4). A system for disseminating information ...

The system has a central trading processor (2) connected via interfaces to at least one intermediary computer (4) for passing orders to the central processor and to at least one price computer (6) for specifying a trade price. The central processor sends a price request to the price computer after receiving a trade request from the intermediary computer, receives a response and carries out further...

The system has a central trading processor (2) connected via interfaces to at least one intermediary computer (4) for passing orders to the central processor and to at least one price computer (6) for specifying a trade price. The central processor sends a price request to the price computer after receiving a trade request from the intermediary computer, receives a response and carries out further...

A PDP with superior light-emitting characteristics and colour reproduction is achieved by setting the chromaticity coordinate y (the CIE colour specification) of light to 0.08 or less, more preferably 0.07 or less, or 0.06 or less, enabling the colour temperature of light to be set to 7,000K or more, and further to 8,000K or more, 9,000K or more or 10,000K or more. The PDP is manufactured by a met...

The invention relates to continuously extruded physically foamed fine cellular polyethylene foam having a structure in which more than 95 % of the cells have a cell diameter smaller than 150 micrometers. The density is between 10 and 100 kg/m<3>. The invention also relates to a process for physical foaming polyethylene in the presence of a nucleating agent. The nucleating agent is an organic compo...

The object of the present invention is to provide a high-intensity, reliable plasma display panel even when the cell structure is fine by resolving the problems such as a low visible light transmittance and low voltage endurance of a dielectric glass layer. The object is realized by forming the dielectric glass layer in the manner given below. A glass paste including a glass powder is applied on t...

Discarded or recycled carpets or other textiles can be converted into wood-like materials, in sheets comparable to plywood. The carpets or textiles are shredded, combed, and layered across a conveyor to form a low-density mat, which is compressed and needle-punched to create a cohesive but flexible mat. An adhesive is applied to at least one and preferably two or more mats, by an applicator that s...

A method of sealing together polyolefin elements, the method comprising providing a first element including a polyolefin selected from at least one of polyethylene and isotactic polypropylene and a second element including a polyolefin selected from at least one of polyethylene and isotactic polypropylene, at least one of the first and second elements further including from 5 to 99 wt% syndiotacti...

The present invention relates to a polyvinylbutyral (PVB) composition that is useful for blending with other polymers. The PVB composition of the present invention can be stored and used at ambient temperature without the occurrence of blocking by the PVB.

A breathable film includes at least one polymer (a) taken from the group comprising an ethylene/alkyl (meth)acrylate copolymer (a1), an optionally neutralized ethylene/ (meth)acrylic acid copolymer (a2), an ethylene/vinyl monomer copolymer (a3), the (a1)/(a2) blend, the (a1)/(a3) blend, the (a2)/(a3) blend and the (a1)/(a2)/(a3) blend, and/or includes at least one functionalized polyethylene (b); ...

Embodiments of the present invention include a polypropylene homopolymer synthesized from a metallocene catalyst system and methods of forming the homopolymer, the homopolymer having an aluminum and chlorine recoverables value of less than 25 ppm and a xylene solubles of less than 1 wt % relative to the total weight of the homopolymer. The resulting homopolymer has other desirable properties such ...

The present invention generally relates to methods for preparing extruded foam products and more particularly to a methods for producing such products with a blowing agent containing 134a and an alcohol.

The present invention provides a stabilizer for asphalt emulsion by which asphalt emulsion having a good chemical stability and being excellent in stationary stability and storage stability can be obtained. A polyoxyethylene adduct compound having a terminal group A selected from a C8-22 alkyl group etc., a terminal group B selected from C1-4 alkyl group etc., and 130 to 500 oxyethylene groups on ...

A blend capable of being melt fabricated into an antistatic film which has improved antistatic action practically immediately after production comprises ethylene alpha,beta-ethylenically unsaturated C3-8 carboxylic acid copolymers having 0-90% of the carboxylic acid groups neutralized by metal ions, particularly sodium ions, and an antistatic effective amount of a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty ac...

An extrudable thermoplastic superabsorbent polymer blend composition is disclosed. The blend compositions are especially well suited for preparation of extruded or molded articles such as monolayer films, multilayer films, nonwoven webs, sheets, foams, profiles, multilayer laminates, fibers, tubes, rods or pipes which in turn are well suited for preparation of power and communication cables or dis...

A system and process is provided for producing spunbond nonwoven fabric. Two or more polymeric components are separately melted and are separately directed through a distribution plate configured so that the separate molten polymer components combine at a multiplicity of spinnerette orifices to form filaments containing the two or more polymer components. Multicomponent filaments are extruded from...

A convertible aircraft brake assembly (10) designed as original equipment to have heat sinks comprising a steel heat sink (20) aircraft brake assembly and a carbon-carbon composite heat sink (40) aircraft brake assembly. When the aircraft brake assembly is converted from one type of heat sink to the other, the conversion is accomplished with minimal changes in component parts. The conversion can b...

The present invention discloses a method and system for transmitting electronic mail messages containing multimedia elements that reduces bandwidth usage and transmission time. The present invention comprises embedding one or more multimedia elements within an electronic mail message where each multimedia element is identified by a globally unique identifier. Each multimedia element contained with...