Extrudable thermoplastic particulates

An improved process for making a fabricated article, said process comprising

• (1) providing a coated particulate, in the form of a powder or in the form of a pellet, of extrudable thermoplastic material, the particulate comprising vinylidene chloride interpolymer, and being coated with at least one processing aid selected from the group consisting of fatty esters, wax esters, glycerol esters, glycol esters, fatty alcohol esters, fatty alcohols, fatty amides, metallic salts of fatty acids, olefin polymers and polyolefin waxes, at a level effective to improve the extrudability of the vinylidene chloride interpolymer;
• and
• (2) fabricating the particulate into an article using a method selected from the group consisting of feedblock coextrusion, multimanifold die coextrusion;
• injection molding;
• extrusion molding;
• and lamination techniques, or combinations thereof.

An improved process for making a fabricated article, said process comprising the following steps:

• (1) providing a coated particulate, in the form of a powder or in the form of a pellet, of extrudable thermoplastic material, the particulate comprising vinylidene chloride interpolymer, and being coated with at least one processing aid, wherein the vinylidene chloride interpolymer is formed from a monomer mixture which comprises vinylidene chloride monomer in an amount of from about 60 to about 99 weight percent and at least one ethylenically unsaturated comonomer copolymerizable therewith in an amount of from about 40 to about 1 weight percent, said weight percents being based on the total weight of the monomer mixture, and the processing aid is selected from the group consisting of, fatty esters, wax esters, glycerol esters, glycol esters, fatty alcohol esters, fatty alcohols, fatty amides, metallic salts of fatty acids, olefin polymers and polyolefin waxes;
• at a level of between about 0.1 and about 0.7 weight percent, based on the total weight of the pellet;
• and
• (2) fabricating the particulate into an article using a method selected from the group consisting of feedblock coextrusion, multimanifold die coextrusion;
• injection molding;
• extrusion molding;
• and lamination techniques, or combinations thereof.