Blend compositions containing a novel homopolymer, the use of which allows
the incorporation of more comonomer in the additional components of the
blend (for the same overall density) resulting in increased tie molecule
formation and improvement in properties such as ESCR, toughness and
impact strength are disclosed. The homopolymers are important for
applications where a high density is needed to ensure certain mechanical
properties like abrasion resistance, indentation resistance, pressure
resistance, topload resistance, modulus of elasticity, or morphology (for
the chlorination of PE to CPE) and additional advantages such as melt
processability. The blend can be obtained by dry or melt mixing the
already produced components, or through in-situ production by in parallel
and/or in series arranged reactors. These resins can be used in
applications such as films, blow molded, injection molded, and rotomolded
articles, fibres, and cable and wire coatings and jacketings and, various
forms of pipe.