US 6,332,940 B1Granted

Process for producing an invisible and writable biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) raw processing film and the product thereof

AssigneeNan Ya Plastics Corporation

InventorAllen Fong-Chin Lin

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Abstract

This invention relates to a process for producing an invisible and writable biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) raw processing film of thickness between 20 to 60 μm. More particularly, this invention relates to a process for producing a three-layers biaxially oriented PP synthetic raw processing film by means of three-layers co-extrusion, wherein two different PP resin compositions are separately extruded by one primary and two secondary extruders first, and then are co-flowed by a same T-die through cooling molding to form a three layers coating sheet, and through biaxial orientation, corona treatment and winding to form three layers co-extrusion synthetic film of thickness 20-60 μm. The three layers structure of said three layers co-extrusion synthetic film can be made in the form of invisible and writable layer/intermediate resin layer/backing adhesive resin layer, which can be used in industrial application and stationery application after winding finishing.

A process for producing an invisible and writable biaxially oriented polypropylene raw processing film have a thickness of 20-60 μm which comprises:

(a) Separately feeding a first resin composition comprising 50%-90% by weight of a high crystallinity polypropylene having over 95% isotacticity, and 10%-50% by weight of calcium carbonate powder into a side hopper of a first twin screw secondary extruder;
(b) feeding a second resin composition comprising 100% by weight of high crystallinity polypropylene having over 95% isotacticity into a side feeding hopper of a twin screw primary reactor;
(c) feeding a third resin composition comprising 100% by weight of high crystallinity polypropylene having over 95% isotacticity into a side feeding hopper of a second twin screw secondary extruder;
(d) conveying said first, second and third resin compositions through said first twin screw secondary extruder, said twin screw primary extruder and said second twin screw secondary extruder respectively to a T-die and co-extruding said first, second and third resin compositions through said T-die at an extrusion temperature of 180° C. to 280° C. to form a three layer polypropylene raw processing film having an invisible and writable layer formed from said first resin composition, an intermediate resin layer formed from said second resin composition and a backing adhesive layer formed from said third resin composition;
(e) cooling and shaping said three layer polypropylene raw processing film by contacting said film with a cooling roller having a temperature of 15° C.-60° C. to form a cooled and shaped polypropylene raw processing film;
(f) orienting said cooled and shaped polypropylene raw processing film longitudinally 3-6 times in a preheated longitudinal orientation device;
said preheated longitudinal orientation device being preheated 115° C. to 150° C.;
and then tempering and cooling said film;
(g) orienting said cooled and shaped polypropylene raw processing film laterally 5-12 times in a preheated lateral orientation device;
said preheated lateral orientation device being preheated to a temperature of 140° C.-195° C.;
and then tempering and cooling said film, whereby said longitudinal and lateral orientation of said film produces a biaxially oriented polypropylene raw processing film;
(h) treating said biaxially oriented polypropylene raw processing film to a corona discharge treatment with a high frequency wave under a power of 20-120 KW;
and
(i) taking up said biaxially oriented propylene raw processing film by a winding device to form a roll of said invisible and writable biaxially oriented polypropylene raw processing film having a thickness of 20-60 μm.

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