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US 2026/0272101 A1Published application
Sports footwear with improved recyclability
AssigneeArkema France
InventorsFlorent ABGRALL, Sébastien Jun MOUGNIER, Thomas PRENVEILLE
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Abstract
The invention is directed principally to a single-material footwear item consisting of: (i) 15 to 65% by weight of thermoplastic polymer selected from polyamides or copolyamides; (ii) 35 to 85% by weight of PEBA thermoplastic elastomer; and (iii) 0 to 15% by weight of additives. The invention is also directed to a process for its manufacture and for its recycling, and also to the composition obtainable after recycling and to its use for the manufacture of footwear items.
Claims15
A single-material footwear item consisting of:
- (i) 15 to 65% by weight of one or more thermoplastic polymers chosen from polyamides and copolyamides;
- (ii) 35 to 85% by weight of one or more thermoplastic elastomers chosen from PEBAs;
- and
- (iii) 0 to 15% by weight of additives.
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A composition consisting of:
- (a) 20 to 100% by weight of pelletized ground single-material footwear items, consisting of:
- a. 15 to 65% by weight of one or more thermoplastic polymers chosen from polyamides or copolyamides;
- b. 35 to 85% by weight of one or more thermoplastic elastomers chosen from PEBAs;
- and
- c. 0% to 15% of additives;
- (b) 0 to 80% by weight of virgin polymer chosen from polyamides, copolyamides and PEBAs;
- and
- (c) 0 to 50% by weight of additives.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.