Wood-like articles made from cellulosic filler loaded ethylene interpolymers

An article having wood-like appearance and sufficiently high stiffness for a wood stubstitute made of a composition comprising

• (a) from about 15 to about 55% by weight of at least one copolymer of ethylene with at least one comonomer selected from the group consisting of salts of unsaturated mono- and dicarboxylic acids of 3 to 5 carbon atoms, optionally said copolymer of ethylene may contain additional comonomer selected from the group consisting of esters of said unsaturated acids wherein the alcohol moiety has 1 to 8 carbon atoms and vinyl esters of saturated carboxylic acids wherein the acid moiety has up to 4 carbon atoms, the ethylene content of said copolymer being from about 40 to about 95% by weight, the comonomer content of said copolymer being from about 5 to about 60% by weight, and the melt index of said copolymer being from about 0.1 to about 150 g/10 min;
• (b) from about 1 to about 15% by weight of at least one plasticizer selected from the group consisting of processing oils, epoxidized oils, polyesters, polyethers, and polyether esters;
• (c) from about 20 to about 70% by weight of cellulosic filler;
• (d) from 0 to about 10% by weight of at least one additive selected from the group consisting of organic acids, organic acid derivatives and surface active agents;
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• (e) from 0 to about 44% by weight of olefin polymer selected from the group consisting of low density branched polyethylene, high density linear polyethylene, linear copolymers of ethylene and another olefin comonomer, polypropylene and copolymers of propylene and ethylene where the ethylene content is up to 20% by weight.