US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 23 for "Foamed article with excellent stiffness preservation and superior surface quality" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,581, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Foamed article with excellent stiffness preservation and superior surface quality" was invented by Junhua Zhang (Etten-Leur, Netherlands), Dimphna Johanna Maria van Beek (Sittard, Netherlands), Daniel Bande (Antwerp, Belgium) and Kar-Man Raymond Chu (Maastricht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a foamed article comprising a polymer composition wherein the polymer composition comprises a first heterophasic propylene copolymer and an inorganic filler. The invention also relates to a process f...